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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 28 November 2023), June 1772, trial of                      RICHARD                      SHARPLESS                                                                                                   WILLIAM                      SAUNDERS                                                                               (t17720603-3).<hr/><h2>RICHARD SHARPLESS, WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Violent Theft &gt; highway robbery, 3rd June 1772. </h2>                                                                                                                  <p>417, 418. (M.)                                                       RICHARD                      SHARPLESS                                                                                                          and                                                       WILLIAM                      SAUNDERS                                                                                                          were indicted for that they                                                          on the king's high way, on                                                                         James                            Fitzpatrick                                                                                                                                                            , did make an assault, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and stealing from his person six pieces of forest cloth, value 20 s. four pieces of scarlet cloth, value 20 s. four pieces of silk stocking, value 20 s. and twelve pieces of linen cloth, value 20 s. the property of the said James            , April 28                  . *</p>               <p>Both                                     acquitted            .</p>            </div>
				
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