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.]




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