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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 June 2023), July 1727, trial of                      Samuel                      Denison                                                                                (t17270705-21).<hr/><h2>Samuel Denison, Violent Theft &gt; highway robbery, 5th July 1727. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>                                                                  Samuel                      Denison                                                                                                          , of St. Pancras                                                      , was indicted for                                                          assaulting                                              Hamiton Howit                         March                                                                                                                                     , on the Highway, taking from him 2 s. in Money, and four Knives            , on the 4th of April                   last; it appeared that the Prosecutor had heard a Report that there was some Highwaymen and evil disposed Persons at a Publick House near the Pindar of Wakefield; and to secure them he raised the Country, and proceeding so far in his Suspicions as to bring himself into a Broil, and not to make his Assertions evident, the Consequence was a Quarrel, and some Blows, in which he said he lost the Goods mentioned in the Indictment; but the Fact not appearing plain, the Prisoner was                                     acquitted            .</p>            </div>
				
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