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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 October 2023), December 1689, trial of                      Mary                      Lamb                                                                               (t16891211-13).<hr/><h2>Mary Lamb, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 11th December 1689. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>                                                                  Mary                      Lamb                                                                                                         , Indicted for                                                          stealing a Silver Spoon value 9 s.             from                                                       William                      Story                                                                                                                               of St. Martins in the Fields                                                       on the 2d of November                   last. The chief witness against her said, that she was a servant                   to him, and that she took the spoon, and broke it in pieces, and offered it to Sale at a Goldsmiths in Holbourn, which was fully sworn against her, altho' she denied it upon her Tryal; yet she was found                                                          guilty to the value of 10 d.                           </p>               <p>                                                                                                                     [Whipping. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
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