Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

6th December 1727

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Mary Hatton proceedingsdefend , Mary Young proceedingsdefend , Mary Knot proceedingsdefend , and Thomas Middleham proceedingsdefend , of St. Leonard's Shereditch , were indicted for stealing a Silver Pot, Porringer, Salts, Pepper-box, Beds, Boulsters, Pillows, Curtains, and Looking-glasses, to the Value of 30 pounds, and 8 pound weight of Silk, to the Value of 10 l. on the 27th of August last the Property of Edward Jones proceedingsvictim . But it appearing to the Court, that the Goods were taken with the Knowledge and Consent of the Prosecutor's Wife, with whom, he living a contentious Life, they agreed to part, and the Woman was not willing to go empty handed, the Jury acquitted them.




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