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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 01 June 2023), September 1810, trial of                      THOMAS                      BASSET                                                                                                    (t18100919-97).<hr/><h2>THOMAS BASSET, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 19th September 1810. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>723.                                                       THOMAS                      BASSET                                                                                                                               was indicted for                                                          feloniously stealing, on the 10th of September                     , a ham, value 15 s.             the property of                                                       Benjamin                      Richardson                                                                                                                              .</p>               <p>                                                SARAH                   YATES                                                                                       . On the tenth of September, about nine in the morning, I was going past Mr. Richardson's, a cheesemonger                  's shop, at the corner of West-street, Grafton-street                                                      , I saw the prisoner put his hand into the window and take a ham; I informed Mr. Richardson of it, he sent a man after him, he took the prisoner and the ham.</p>               <p>JAMES BRIMSKILL. I am a servant to Mr. Richardson. From information of the last witness, I pursued the prisoner, he fell down and dropped the ham, I picked up the ham and took him. This is the ham, it is my master's,</p>               <p>Prisoner's defence. I leave myself to the mercy of the Court.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY            , aged 32.</p>               <p>                                                                                                Confined Six Months in the House of Correction            , and                                                                               Whipped in Jail            .</p>               <p>Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.</p>            </div>
				
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