Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
20th April 1737
2.
Simon
Stanton
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, of London, Gent
. was indicted, for that he after the 24th of June, 1736, to wit, on the 13th of December
last, in the Parish St. Mary le Bow
,
feloniously made and caused to made a certain forged and counterfeit Writing, purporting a Receipt for 200 l. in the following Words, viz. '' I do hereby acknowledge, to have '' had and receiv'd of
William
Jones
< no role >
, Esq; since I '' left the Lady Norton's Service, two hundred '' Pounds in Money and other Things; but I am '' not to repay the same, if he rovokes a Deed of '' Gift, of five Hundred Pounds in South-Sea. Annuities, '' this Day made to me, dated 17th Jan. '' 1728
.
A Capstick. Witness E. Downs.
With intent to defraud
John
Wigley
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, of Lambeth, and
Agnes
Capstick
proceedingsvictim
, now Wife
of the said Wigley, and which said Writing he the said Stanton publish'd the Day aforesaid as true, he knowing the same to be false, forged and counterfeit.
Acquitted
.