Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th October 1684
Elizabeth
Francis
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and
Ann
Barker
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Indicted for
stealing a silk Crape Mantua Gown to the value of 12 s.
from
Evan
Evans
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, a Salesman
, upon London-Bridge
, but the Prisoners proveing that they bought the said Gown and that it was a Trick put upon them they were both
acquitted
, the Salesman forced to repay them the 15 s. in the Court, and were also ordered to be forthwith set at Liberty without paying any Fees: which was done accordingly.