Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
2nd July 1684
John
Smith
proceedingsdefend
Indicted for
Felony and Burglary in breaking and entring the House of the Right Honourable her Grace the
Dutch. of Portsmouth
proceedingsvictim
, and stealing from thence a Silver and Gold Point of Lorain Peticoat, Value 30 l. ten Yards of blue Silk flowered with Gold, and other Silk, to a considerable Value
. The Proof which did most affect him, was, that it was sworn a small Piece of about three quarters of a Yard, of flowered Silk, found in his Custody, was part of the Silk so stolen. But he producing some Witnesses that he bought it of a Finisher to some great Taylor, and gave 18 l. for it; which Finisher, told him it was all the Cabbadge he had gotten since Easter. In conclusion, the Jury
acquitted
the said Smith.