Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

14th October 1685

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Edward Lawson proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West , Indicted for stealing fifty five Yards of Cloth, value 70 l. of the Goods of the Lady Frances Turconel proceedingsvictim . It was fully proved against the Prisoner, that he had the Cloth, and was seen to go into the House, and bring the Cloth thence, which after he called a Coach, and carried the Cloth into Fetter-Lane. The Prisoner appeared very Impudent in Court, giving a very slender account of himself; and that which was given being look'd upon as very Immaterial, he was brought in Guilty .

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