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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 June 2023), May 1779, trial of                      JOHN                      MEARS                                                                                                   FRANCES                      CORNING                                                                               (t17790519-42).<hr/><h2>JOHN MEARS, FRANCES CORNING, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, 19th May 1779. </h2>                                                                                                                  <p>                  299, 300.                                                       JOHN                      MEARS                                                                                                          and                                                       FRANCES                      CORNING                                                                                                          were indicted for                                                          stealing, in the dwelling house of                                              William                         Nash                                                                                                            , four guineas, the property of                                              Adam                         Younger                                                                                                                                    , a Bank note for 15 l. and another Bank note for 10 l. the property of the said                                              Adam                         Younger                                                                                                            , the same notes being due and unsatisfied to the said Adam            , May 14th                  .</p>               <p>(The prosecutor was called but did not appear.)</p>               <p>BOTH                                                          NOT GUILTY            .</p>            </div>
				
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