Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th December 1691
Francis
Exhall
proceedingsdefend
, was Tryed for
Stealing Three Black Cow from one
William
Greentree
proceedingsvictim
, on the 13th of November
Last out of his Grounds at Bagshot
; which the Prisoner confes when taken; being found in Water Lane, but he denied it his Tryal, saying that he met a Man upon the Road, who gave him half a Crown to drive them to London; but that was but a Frivilous Excuse; so he was found
Guilty
Felony.