Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th October 1688
Nowell
Gawell
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of the Parish of St. Botolph's Aldgate
; was Indicted together with one
Francis
Freeman
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and two others as Accessories, not yet Taken, of
Felony and Burglary, in Breaking the House of
John
Stone
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, on the 13th. of August
last past, and taking thence (in the Night about One a Clock,) six Womens fine Shifts, value 6 l. two pair of Sheets, value 4 l. two Table-cloaths, value 10 s. two Dozen of Diaper Napkins, value 12 s. one Handkerchief, value 30 s. one pair of Lac'd Ruffles, value 20 s. one Green Cloth Carpet, value 5 s. &c.
The Evidence was Mrs. Stone and others; who deposed that the Prisoner was a kind of a Labourer about the House
; and so might have opportunity to take away the abovesaid Goods; some of which were left by him at an Ale house, near to Mr. Stone's House. The Prisoner denied it, and said that the Goods were given him by another Man he met; but they that were with him were Fled. He made no other Defence for himself; and the Court looking upon himto be a kind of an Idle Fellow; he was brought in
guilty of the Felony, but Acquitted of the Burglary
.