[Merrit was acquitted, Dallison was sentenced to a whipping, on 26 October 1752]

Mary Jones, otherwise Merrit, spinster, and Ann Dallison, spinster, were indicted for stealing [clothing] the goods of John Rickards, Aug. 23 [1752]

[John Rickards] […] I said to my wife, when I came home, If ever I saw your gown, I saw it on Poll [Mary] Merrit's back. I looked for them several nights after, and could not see them. But now, Sir, I come again. I heard Ann Dallison sing in a chamber, when I was cleaning my master's stable. I threw a bit of wood in; she said, Who is that? I said it is I. Where is Poll Merrit, said I? She is here, said she.