The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS ON THE KING's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the CITY of LONDON; AND ALSO The Gaol Delivery for the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX; HELD AT JUSTICE HALL in the OLD BAILEY, On Wednesday the 15th of October 1777, and the following Days;

Being the EIGHTH SESSION in the Mayoralty of The Right Honble Sir   THOMAS HALLIFAX , LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND BY   JOSEPH GURNEY , And Published by Authority.

NUMBER VIII. PART I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY   WILLIAM RICHARDSON ; AND SOLD BY S. BLADON, in PATER-NOSTER ROW.

[PRICE SIX-PENCE.]

THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS UPON THE

KING's Commission of Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the CITY of LONDON, &c.

BEFORE the Right Hon. Sir   THOMAS HALLIFAX , Knt. LORD MAYOR of the City of London; the Honourable Sir   WILLIAM HENRY ASHHURST , Knt. One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench; the Honourable Sir   JAMES EYRE , Knt. One of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer; Mr. Serjeant GLYNN, Recorder;   THOMAS NUGENT ; Esquire, Common Serjeant; and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer of the City of London and Justices of Gaol Delivery of Newgate holden for the said City and County of Middlesex.

London Jury.

  John Acton ,

  Thomas Pike ,

  John Heley ,

  Joshua Gregory ,

  John Morgan ,

  John Oakes ,

  William Phillips ,

  Benjamin Ivory ,

  Stephen Clarke ,

  James Bolter ,

  Edward Thornton ,

  Charles Poyner .

First Middlesex Jury.

  William Wilton ,

  Josiah Wallis ,

  Nathaniel Allen ,

  John Body ,

  Joseph Reed ,

  William Rogers ,

  Charles Morgan ,

  Thomas Gilbert ,

  Richard Dowding ,

  John Berkley ,

  Samuel Burton ,

  Joseph Ainsley .

Second Middlesex Jury.

  John Scott ,

  John Jenkins ,

  James Blay ,

  James Hergest ,

  Timothy Bentley ,

  John Graterix ,

  Francis Jones ,

  John Tidmarsh ,

  Alexander Hewitt ,

  William Chapman ,

  Caesar Andrews ,

  William Crasswell .