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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 04 October 2023), February 1793, trial of                      JOHN                      SWINNEY                                                                                                   CHARLOTTE                      PEARSON                                                                               (t17930220-55).<hr/><h2>JOHN SWINNEY, CHARLOTTE PEARSON, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, 20th February 1793. </h2>                                                                                                                  <p>                  249.                                                       JOHN                      SWINNEY                                                                                                          and                                                       CHARLOTTE                      PEARSON                                                                                                          were indicted for                                                          feloniously stealing, on the 16th of February                     , two linen sheets, value 12 s. a cotton bed quilt, value 5 s. a copper tea kettle, value 5 s. a tin sauce pan, value 2 s. 6 d. and a flat iron, value 12 d. the goods of                                                                         Patrick                            Mordant                                                                                                                                                             in a lodging room            .</p>               <p>                                                PATRICK                   MORDANT                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I let a room to                                  John                   Swinney                                                                                        and                                  Charlotte                   Pearson                                                                                       ; I let it to                                  John                   Swinney                                                                                       , the man was responsible.</p>               <p>                                                      Not GUILTY            .</p>               <p>Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>            </div>
				
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