Offence: Theft > theft from a specified place
Verdict: Guilty > theft under 1s
Punishment: Miscellaneous > branding
Mary Smith was Indicted and tryed for stealing a Coat & wastcoat on the 22th of February last, from Allen Tuller of St. Anns Black Fryars whereupon it was swore against her that she had sold them and confessed that she took them from the house of the prosecutor who was then her Master ; to which she pleaded Ignorance as to the theft, saying she received them of a young man then Lodging in the house, of whom she had some small acquaintance at Cambridge e're she came to London; and that he told her the Cloaths were his own and therefore desired her to sell them for him, but no manner of proof appearing to confirme what she Alledged the Jury found her Guilty though only to the Value of 10 d.