excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), December 1767, trial of Bridget King (t17671209-3)' (177 words)
excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 February 2019), December 1767, trial of Bridget King (t17671209-3)' (177 words)
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[Bridget King was found guilty of theft on 9 December 1767 and sentenced to transportation] Robert Drout: I am a seaman, I came home in the Montreal frigate that brought the Duke of York home; I had been to the India-house to receive some money due to me five years ago. On Thursday was se'nnight, as I was returning to my lodgings, I heard a girl singing at the Ship and Star in East Smithfield; I thought there might be some of my ship-mates there; this was between four and five in the afternoon; I called for a pint of slip; the girl at the bar came and sat by the side of me; then there came in an oyster woman [Bridget King], and we had some oysters; then she said, come, my dear, will you go with me to my room in the Back-lane[...] [W]hen I was lying with her, she got her hand in my pocket, and took my purse, and gave herself a spring away, and catched my watch from the table and ran away. |
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