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• Thomas Hitchcock
  1739

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  Arson
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• Higgins
  1739

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  Higgins in the parish of Llanddewi on 12 ..... 173... stole a bay horse (value 40/-) belonging to William Davies (WALES 4/376/4). Guilty verdict.
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• Mary Wilkins
  1739

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  Mary Wilkins murder her male bastard by throwing it in the privy. No reprieve found. Presume executed.
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• Nathaniel Taylor
  1739

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  Highway robbery
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• William George
  1739

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  Murder Elizabeth Blackford
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• John Cotton
  1739

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  Thursday, 22 March 1739
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• William Lomas
  1739

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  Friday, 23 March 1739 (Stamford Mercury) (LDB records this under March 1738).
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• Thomas Sharp
  1739

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  Friday, 23 March 1739 (Stamford Mercury) (LDB records this under March 1738).
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• Joseph Binge
  1739

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  Friday, 23 March 1739 (Stamford Mercury) (LDB records this under March 1738).
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• Godfrey Wheeler
  1739

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  Godfrey Wheeler guilty of breaking into a dwelling house. (He was also tried at the County Assizes and found guilty of stealing 2 wethers (valued at 10/-), the property of Joseph Bury, in the parish of Astley on 26th…
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• John Martin
  1739

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  John Martin (otherwise John Manning) guilty of the highway robbery of James Watkins in the parish of Balscote on 5th October 1738: robbing him of 24/6 in money numbered.
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• William Rogers
  1739

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  Monday, 26 March 1739 (Ipswich Journal)
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• George Baker
  1739

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  Monday, 26 March 1739 (Ipswich Journal)
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• Isaac Winteal
  1739

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  Monday, 26 March 1739 (Ipswich Journal)
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• Humphrey Crow
  1739

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  Humphrey Crow, aged 19, guilty of breaking into the outhouse of the dwelling of Daniel Pearsehouse in the parish of Shelsley on 15th November 1738; and stealing therefrom 11 yards of woollen cloth (valued at 20/-), 30…
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• David Jenkins
  1739

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  David Jenkins in the parish of Llywel on 30? March 1739 stole a bay coloured mare (value 40/-) belonging to Richard Morgan (WALES 4/376/4). Death sentence. No reprieve traced.
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• George Bezant
  1739

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  Saturday, 31 March 1739 (Sherbourne Mercury) George Bezant guilty of the murder of his father, Thomas, and mother, Amy, by stabbing them, at Kingston near Blandford on 7th January 1739.
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• Philip Davey
  1739

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  Lent 1739
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• Thomas Willot
  1739

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  Thomas Willot guilty of the murder of Thomas Plumb After execution his body was hanged in chains on Mere Heath
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• Thomas Andrews
  1739

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  Thomas Andrews guilty of a burglary
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• John Ryley
  1739

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  John Ryley guilty of privately stealing (pickpocket). Executed
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• Richard Gathercole
  1739

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  Richard Gathercole guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Garwood Ward. Executed
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• James Fazakerley
  1739

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  1739
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• Isaac Lakes
  1739

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  Isaac Lakes (or Jakes) guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Mary Coppin. Executed
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• Sarah Farmer
  1739

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  Sarah Farmer guilty of the murder of her female bastard. Executed.
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• John Edwards
  1739

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  John Edwards guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Thomas Baker; and stealing therefrom goods and chattels (valued at £4.15.9d). Executed.
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• John Andrews
  1739

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  John Andrews
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• John Crabb
  1739

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  John Crabb
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• Richard Rowel
  1739

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  Richard Rowel
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• John Braser
  1739

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  John Braser
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• David Roberts
  1739

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  DAVID ROBERTS
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• John Cooke
  1739

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  John Cooke found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Daniel in the parish of Banstead on 2nd February 1739: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at £3), 1 gold guinea, 1 gold half guinea and 9/6 in…
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• Alexander Mills
  1739

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  Alexander Mills and John Salmon found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Thomas Harvey in the parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe on 11th January 1739: robbing him of a pair of trousers (valued at 2/-), a…
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• John Salmon
  1739

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  Alexander Mills and John Salmon found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Thomas Harvey in the parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe on 11th January 1739: robbing him of a pair of trousers (valued at 2/-), a…
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• John Blundall
  1739

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  John Blundall found guilty on an indictment for breaking into the dwelling house of Thomas Blake in the parish of St Mary, Lambeth on 8th June 1738; and stealing therefrom 5 shirts (valued at 15/-), 4 shifts (valued at…
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• Dick Turpin
  1739

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  RICHARD TURPIN A famous Highway Robber, who shot dead one of his own Comrades and was executed at York On 7th of April, 1739
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• Richard Turpin
  1739

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  Richard Turpin (in name of John Palmer) guilty of stealing a black gelding (value £3), a black mare (value £3) and a filly foal (value 20/-), the property of Thomas Creavy, in the parish of Welton on 1st March 1739.
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• John Stead
  1739

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  John Stead, aged 38, guilty of stealing a mouse-grey coloured mare (value £3), the property of William Hewitson, in the parish of Sproxton on 1st February 1739.
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• Mary Brittain
  1739

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  Mary Brittain for the murder of her bastard.
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• John Jones
  1739

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  John Jones for the theft of a horse.
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• William Butler
  1739

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  William Butler for a burglary.
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• John Stephens
  1739

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  John Stephens of Michael Church & William Smith of Huntington, Herefordshire in the parish of Gladestry on 23 April 1739 at night assaulted William Price beating and kicking him with hands, feet and staves of which he…
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• William Smith
  1739

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  John Stephens of Michael Church & William Smith of Huntington, Herefordshire in the parish of Gladestry on 23 April 1739 at night assaulted William Price beating and kicking him with hands, feet and staves of which he…
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• William Dykes
  1739

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  May 1739 (LDB)
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• John Kimberley
  1739

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  Friday, 4 May 1739
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• John Phillips
  1739

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  Friday, 4 May 1739
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• John Beves
  1739

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  Saturday, 5 May 1739 (St Mary’s Burial Register)
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• William Frasley
  1739

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  Saturday, 5 May 1739 (St Mary’s Burial Register)
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• Robert Owen
  1739

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  Saturday, 5 May 1739 (St Mary’s Burial Register)
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• William Hawthorn
  1739

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  Saturday, 12 May 1739 (QSR).
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• James Taylor
  1739

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  Saturday, 12 May 1739 (QSR).
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• Elinor Hadley
  1739

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  Saturday, 26 May 1739 Carmarthen town execution.
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• Abraham Wells
  1739

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  ABRAHAM WELLS
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• Samuel Tomlinson
  1739

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  Samuel Tomlinson The only indictment I have seen is for theft of 12 ounces of gold fringe (valued at 50/-) and 7 gold tassels (valued at 20/-), the property of the parish of St Anne, Manchester on 14 June 1739. It is…
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• Richard Cairn
  1739

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  Summer 1739
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• James Caldclough
  1739

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  JAMES CALDCLOUGH Executed for Robbery, July 2nd 1739.
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• Thomas Brown
  1739

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  August 1739 (LDB)
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• Watkins Foreman
  1739

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  Housebreaking
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• William Brown
  1739

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  William Brown
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• William Swain
  1739

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  William Swain
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• William Denton
  1739

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  Friday, 31 August 1739 (St Sidwell Burial Register gives execution date.)
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• Simon Needs
  1739

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  Friday, 31 August 1739 (St Sidwell Burial Register gives execution date.)
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• James Tickner
  1739

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  Friday, 31 August 1739 (St Sidwell Burial Register gives execution date.)
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• John Bagley
  1739

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  John Bagley guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Samuel Westwood in the parish of Rowley (Regis) on 17th March 1738: stealing therefrom 4 gold guineas and 12/6 in money numbered. Executed.
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• Thomas Richards
  1739

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  Thomas Richards no indictment. Stated as executed.
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• John Wilson
  1739

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  John Wilson, a travelling tinker, guilty of the murder of Barbara Tremble between six and seven o’clock in the evening of 23rd July 1739 at Donchwood by hitting her about the head with a stick.
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• Michael Curry
  1739

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  Michael Curry guilty of the murder of Robert Shearvel (Shevil), innkeeper, by cutting his throat with a razor, at Hartley on the 11th January 1739 so that he died on the 13th January.
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• Thomas Galalee
  1739

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  Wednesday, 5 September 1739 (Newcastle Journal)
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• Noah Gooby
  1739

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  Noah Gooby found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Deaton in the parish of st Mary, Lambeth on 24th march 1739: robbing him of a silver watch (valued at 40/-), a gold ring (valued at 10/-), a…
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• Michael Lucas
  1739

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  Michael Lucas (otherwise Stanley) found guilty on an indictment for breaking into the dwelling house of John Pannell in the parish of Haslemere on 1st August 1739; and stealing therefrom 2 gold rings (valued at 30/-), 4…
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• John Hanna
  1739

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  John Hanna found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of James Howard in the parish of Kingston upon Thames on 2nd July 1739: robbing him of 1 gold guinea, the money of John Brookes.
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• Eleanor Spencer
  1739

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  Eleanor Spencer, Johanna Rashford and Peter Wellington found guilty on an indictment for the robbery of Stephen Freeman in the dwelling house of Elizabeth Bush, widow, in the parish of St George, Southwark on 1st August…
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• Johanna Rashford
  1739

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  Eleanor Spencer, Johanna Rashford and Peter Wellington found guilty on an indictment for the robbery of Stephen Freeman in the dwelling house of Elizabeth Bush, widow, in the parish of St George, Southwark on 1st August…
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• Peter Wellington
  1739

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  Eleanor Spencer, Johanna Rashford and Peter Wellington found guilty on an indictment for the robbery of Stephen Freeman in the dwelling house of Elizabeth Bush, widow, in the parish of St George, Southwark on 1st August…
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• William Smith
  1739

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  Friday, 14 September 1739, Town Moor, Newcastle (Newcastle Journal)
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• John Saunderson
  1739

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  Saturday 15th September 1739 (Newcastle Journal)
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• John Wilson
  1739

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  John Wilson guilty of a burglary in the Mansion House of Jonathan Fisher in the parish of Crosthwaite between the hours of ten and two o’clock on the night of 5 May 1739. The indictment accuses him of stealing linen…
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• David Jelly
  1739

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  David Jelly guilty of a burglary of the dwelling of William Holme in the parish of Castle Sowerby between the hours of eight and ten on the night of 1 October 1731. The indictment accuses him of and stealing 1 gold…
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• Thomas Limpons
  1739

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  Thomas Limpons guilty of the highway robbery of John Eastmont: robbing him of a leathern mail, valued at 40/-, the property of the King; and a brown gelding, valued at £5, the property of Henry Hoskins. After execution…
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• Thomas Jones
  1739

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  Thomas Jones guilty of picking the pocket of Samuel Fourans of 1 gold guinea and other money.
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• William Stirling
  1739

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  William Stirling guilty of the murder of his daughter. Sarah
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• Thomas Lympus
  1739

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  THOMAS LYMPUS Executed near Wells, in Somersetshire, 21st of September 1739, for robbing the Mail.
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• Thomas Barkwith
  1739

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  THOMAS BARKWITH An accomplished Scholar and Linguist, who was executed at Tyburn 1st of December, 1739, for Robbery
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• Edward Jones
  1739

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  EDWARD JOINES
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