Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th December 1727
Mary
Hatton
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,
Mary
Young
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,
Mary
Knot
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, and
Thomas
Middleham
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, 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
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. 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.