Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 31 January 2019), September 1732, trial of William Flemming (t17320906-67)

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William Flemming was indicted for assaulting Thomas Oulton on the High-way, putting him in Fear, and taking from him 3 s. in the Parish of St. George in Middlesex , August 5 [1732]

Thomas Oulton: About 8 at Night, I was sitting on my Coach-Box at Thread-needle-Point, by Stock's-Market. The Prisoner and another [hired my coach] […] I did not like my Chaps, for I was afraid (by their bidding me drive from one Place to another) that they wanted an Opportunity of jumping out of the Coach, and bilking me of my Fair. […]

[Eventually] I demanded my Money; they said; they wanted something from their Aunts, who lived down farther, but did not care that she should see them; and if I would go and fetch it, they would shew me the Door, and if I did not go they could not pay me. I left my Coach, and went with them to the lower End of Farthing [encountering two women] [...] One of the Women said to the Prisoner, Dear Billy, I am glad to see you ; but he up with the Case Knife, and holding it to her, felt a damning her, and asked if she had no Money? She told him, No; but if he would go to such an Ale-house, she would make him drink. So they went through several bye Alleys, and he […] singing a Song of, The Miller and the High-way-Man, till we came to the end of King-street in old Gravel-Lane, and there he knock'd an Oyster-Woman down, and run into an Ale-house among some Whores, and swore he would dance a Horn-pipe[.]

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