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- Court testimony from the Old Baily Session Records.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 18 November 2018), October 1748, trial of William Gritton (t17481012-24).
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17481012-24
William Gritton
Theft: grand larceny.
12th October 1748.
Reference: t17481012-24
503. William Gritton , of St. Luke's, Middlesex , was indicted for stealing a shirt, val. 3 s. the goods of Daniel Bromfield , Sep. 20th .
Daniel Bromfield . On the 20th of Sept. I lost a shirt out of the kitchen.
Mary Softly . I was cleaning my kitchen between twelve and one at noon, and my uncle called to me to air his shirt, and I put it upon the back of a chair, and went for a half penny worth of sand; and when I went into the house, I saw the prisoner coming out of the kitchen, with the shirt under his coat.
Q. Did you stop him then?
Softly. I did not miss it till I went into the kitchen, and found the shirt was gone, and then I went and cried out, stop thief!
Q. Did you know the prisoner before?
Softly. I never saw him before.
Q. Did you see the shirt taken from him?
Softly: Yes, and it was delivered into my hand.
Guilty.
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Prisoner found guilty and sentence to seven years transportation.
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- Gritton, William. S. Sep-Oct 1748 T Jan 1749 Laura. M.
The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Peter Wilson Coldham. Page 339.
LKH note:
S=Sentence to transportation.
T=Transported
M = Middlesex
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