Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
25th February 1685
Mary
Caborne
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Indicted for
Clipping several pieces of money
. She very obscurely used to follow this too fatal Employ, when the supposed the secresie of a dark Night was her chiefest friend, and would often, to supply the craying importunities of sin, diminish the King's Coin. She had no small acquaintance of that bad profession, and would very often pay Debts and Rent in new Clipt money, her Implements for such occasions were found in her Apartments, with several new pieces of money Clipt. The Jury, upon so plain an Evidence as appeared against the Prisoner, brought her in
Guilty
of Treason, and accordingly she received sentence of
Death
, as the Law in such Cases awards.