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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 09 December 2023), June 1714, trial of                   Mary                   Billingsby                                                                            (t17140630-68).<hr/><h2>Mary Billingsby, Violent Theft &gt; robbery, 30th June 1714. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>                                                Mary                   Billingsby                                                                                       , of the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch                                                      , was indicted for                                                          assaulting                                              Judith                         Fa[Text unreadable in original.]                                                                                                                                                                an Infant                     , and for putting her in fear of her Life, and robbing her of a Callico Frock, value 4 s. 6 d.             on the 7th of June                  . A Witness depos'd, that as he was passing along the Road that goes from Shoreditch towards Old Street, he saw the Prisoner leading the Child by the Hand; and she being very ragged, and the Child neatly clad, he suspected her, whereupon he dogg'd her, and meeting another Man in the way, desir'd him to go with him; and that when she reached a bye-place, she fell to her Work, and they let her until she had pull'd off the Frock, and began to [Text unreadable in original.] Stays, and then they went and took her, and found the Child in a dreadful Fright, who told them, she [Text unreadable in original.] threatn'd to throw her in a Pond, if she cry'd. This was confirm'd by the other Evidence; and the Prisoner having nothing to say against so plain a Proof, was found                                     guilty of the Indictment            .</p>               <p>                                                                                                [Death. See summary.]                                                </p>            </div>
				
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