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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 25 September 2023), October 1777, trial of                      JOHN                      STORER                                                                                                                        SAMUEL                      BLAKE                                                                                                    (t17771015-2).<hr/><h2>JOHN STORER, SAMUEL BLAKE, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 15th October 1777. </h2>                                                                                                                  <p>616, 617.                                                       JOHN                      STORER                                                                                                                               and                                                       SAMUEL                      BLAKE                                                                                                                               were indicted for                                                          stealing two linen shirts, value 18 d.             the property of                                                       William                      Hewson                                                                                                                              , October 15th                  .</p>               <p>                                                MARY                   HEWSON                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I am the wife of                                  William                   Hewson                                                                                       : I take in linen to wash; I had nineteen shirts of a gentleman to wash; they hung on a line in the garden, opposite the house; I saw Storer run out of the garden, and throw one of the shirts down on a ba nk, inside the garden; I followed him, and cried, Stop thief; he was stopped by two labouring men</p>               <p>Was any thing found upon him? - No; he was not searched: they were both together; I did not see the other do any thing; I missed two of the shirts; my mother took up the shirt that Storer dropped.</p>               <p>[The shirt was produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutrix.]</p>               <p>STORER's DEFENCE.</p>               <p>I am fourteen years old.</p>               <p>BLAKE's DEFENCE.</p>               <p>I am twelve years old.</p>               <p>STORER                                                          GUILTY of stealing to the value of ten pence            .                                                                               W            .</p>               <p>BLAKE                                     NOT GUILTY            .</p>               <p>Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>            </div>
				
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