Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th December 1709
Mary
Royly
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Anns Westminster
, was Indicted for
privately stealing 3 Shirts, the Goods of
Robert
Herring
proceedingsvictim
, on the 26th of November
last. It appear'd that the Prisoner, came to the Prosecutor's Shop, and there being only a little Child there, she amus'd it, by asking to hear her Read, and in the mean time took the Goods, which were found upon her as she was going off. The Jury found her
guilty to the value of 10 d.