Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
5th December 1722
Mary
Hyde
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, of the Parish of St. Buttolph Aldgate
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing two English Common-Prayer Books, value 25 s.
the Goods of the
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of the said Parish, on the 13th of November
last. The Evidence depos'd, That the Books had been taken out of the Church, and, as it was suppos'd, at the Time of a Burial that had been at the said Church; that having advertis'd them in the publick News, Information being given where the Books were, he went and found them accordingly, in Rag Fair, at the House of one. R. Armstrong, a Dealer in Old Clothes, Etc. The Prisoner deny'd the Stealing of the Books, but said she bought them of another Woman in Rag Fair for 6 s. and sold them to Armstrong for 4 s. 6 d. The Jury found her
guilty
of the Indictment.
Transportation
.