

<!-- MAIN CONTENT -->
<div id="main" class="full"><div id="main2">

				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 December 2023), February 1691, trial of                   Robert                   Congden                                                                            (t16910218-24).<hr/><h2>Robert Congden, Killing &gt; murder, Killing &gt; murder, Killing &gt; murder, 18th February 1691. </h2>                                                                                                                                 <p>                                                Robert                   Congden                                                                                       , was Indicted upon, three Several Indictments of Murther committed at Wappen                                                                                           not long since, for that he, together with one                                  Thomas                   Rogers                                                                                        and                                  William                   Thomas                                                                                       , not taken, did                                                          kill and Murther, (first) one                                              Catherine                         Bignall                                                                                                                                             ,                                                          (secondly) one                                              Elinor                         Eadon                                                                                                                                             ,                                                          (thirdly) one                                              Margaret                         Jallon                                                                                                                                             , and taking away a great deal of Plate. The Witness was, That the Prisoner was heard to confess, that the Murther was contrived a Fortnight before it was done, and that he offered the Plate to sale a Goldsmiths, and that he was a Servant to the Person that kept the House, &amp;c. The Prisoner said, That the other two Persons set him to watch at the door while they Robbed the House, but he knew nothing of the Murther; yet in the Conclusion, he was found                                     Guilty             upon all the three Indictments.</p>               <p>                                                                                                [Death. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
</div></div><!-- #main -->