

<!-- MAIN CONTENT -->
<div id="main" class="full"><div id="main2">

				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 03 June 2023), February 1781, trial of                      JOHN                      CLARKE                                                                               (t17810222-45).<hr/><h2>JOHN CLARKE, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, 22nd February 1781. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>176.                                                       JOHN                      CLARKE                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          stealing 300 lb. wt. of lead, value 20 s. the property of Lady                                                                                                                Diana                            Beauclerk                                                                                                                                                            , widow                     , the said lead being affixed to a certain wall belonging to the dwelling house of the said Diana            , Feb. 16th                  .</p>               <p>(                                                         It appeared that the lead had been stolen from an observatory in the middle of the garden, and not from the wall; the prisoner was therefore found NOT GUILTY            ).</p>            </div>
				
</div></div><!-- #main -->