Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
15th May 1684
Christian
Tompson
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, and
Elizabeth
Townsend
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, Indicted for
stealing 30 Yards of Mohair Silk
, of
Thomas
Audley
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, in the Parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate
; part of the Silk was found upon them, or where they had drop'd it; but the Procecutor only Swearing it was very like his Silk, and could not be Positive, they were therefore
Acquitted
.