The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Reference Number	t16770117-3
Verdict	Guilty
Sentence	Death

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A  man was likewise Condemned to die for a kind of unusual Crime, but such as the Law, by reason of its bad example and mischievous tendency, has thought fit to restrain with  capital Punishment; which was, that there being a Suit at Law depending between two persons, the Prisoner comes and personating another man, is Bayl for one of the parties before a Judge; upon which afterwards the  man whose name he had assumed knowing nothing of the business, was taken up, to his great damage , &c. He begg'd heartily for Transportation, but it could not be granted.