Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th October 1684
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Anne
Parker
proceedingsdefend
, a notorious Thief, Indicted for
stealing a silver Tankard, and several other things
of the Goods of
Mr.
Rowland
proceedingsvictim
of London, to whose House she on the 13th. of March
last came to be hired as a Servant
; and being hired by his Wife, was taken into their Service the same Night; but the next Morning getting up early, stole the said Goods and went her way. She was found
Guilty
.
She was a second time Indicted for
stealing two silver Tankards, and several other things
, of the Goods of Mr.
Robert
Swinfield
proceedingsvictim This name instance is in a workspace.
, to whom she also came to be hired as a Servant on the 11. of September
last, by the Name of
Mary
Palmer
< no role >
, telling them she had lived lately at a Place in Leaden-hall street; to which Place they sending to inquire, before they hired her, had an Account, that one
Mary
Palmer
< no role >
newly gone from thence, was a very good and an honest Servant (it appearing since, she had gotten the Name of the said
Mary
Palmer
< no role >
and the time when she left her Service, whose good Name she made use of to manage her Deceit) she was thereupon hired, and, as in her former Service, stay'd but one Night, running away in the Morning early, with the Plate and other things mentioned in the Indictment. Which being proved against her, she was found
Guilty
.
She was a third time Indicted for
stealing several other things of a great Value
, from Mr
Richard
Pierce
proceedingsvictim
, to whom she was hired as a Servant, bythe Name of
Jane
Pallard
< no role >
, having used the like Artifice to be hired, by assuming the Name of an honest Servant-Maid; but after a short time took an Opportunity to run away with the said Goods from this Service also. All which Goods, with much of the Plate, she stole from Mr. Swinfield, being pack'd up, carried to Blossoms Inn, and sent away by the Carrier, but afterwards discovered by the Porters Book belonging to the said Carrier. She was therefore found
Guilty
of the third Indictment.
[Death -respited for pregnancy. See summary.]