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Convictions and Punishments from Hill Assizes
Hill assizes concluded with multiple convictions. Daniel Harper and John Noble for horse stealing to be hanged. Amorose Greenacre for felony burnt in the hand. William Woods for felony transported. Elizabeth Rivett for petty larceny whipped. Mary Foreman acquitted after suspicion of murdering her child. Elizabeth Dey convicted for stealing cambrick burnt in the hand. Thomas Smith and Anne his wife for receiving stolen goods transported fourteen years. Samuel Yemms ordered to Ely for trial after felony burglary. A youth who fired on his sweetheart at the Cross Keys in Magdalen Street was acquitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Dey
Doyly
Thomas Smith
Anne
Samuel Yemms
William Limverd
Wifbich
Ely
Cross-keys
Magdalen-street
Wife
King’s Head Court
Southwark
Stanate
Laft
Chelsea
Ruffel
Anne Mosely
St. James’s Street
Watts
John Watts
Lincoln’s Inn
Charles Mosely
Budge Row
Catentonftreet
Clopinbergh
Norwich
Cross
Catharine Hall
Cambridge
Hertford
Clark
Danbury House
Hlington
Cripplegate
Elizabeth Bennet
Bennett
Samuel Roffel
St. Giles Cripplegate
John Field
Whitecross-street
Lake Middlesex
St. Stephen Walbrook
Clay
Strand
É&C
Kensington
Roper
Chamberlain of
London