Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
25th February 1719
William
Spurgin
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, and
Mary
Stiles
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, of St. Dunstan at Stepney
, were indicted the former for
stealing a Flaxen Sheet, a Holland Smock and other Linnen to the value of 20 s.
and Mary Stiles for
receiving the same knowing them to be stole.
It appear'd that Spurgin took the Goods out of the Garden where they were drying, and that Stiles was to give him a Crown for them, and bought a Peck of Coals to dry them by. The Jury found them
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
Transportation
.