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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 26 March 2023), September 1812, trial of                      RALPH                      MANNING                                                                                                   ELIZABETH                      DAVIS                                                                               (t18120916-2).<hr/><h2>RALPH MANNING, ELIZABETH DAVIS, Theft &gt; theft from a specified place, 16th September 1812. </h2>                                                                                                                  <p>626.                                                       RALPH                      MANNING                                                                                                          and                                                       ELIZABETH                      DAVIS                                                                                                          were indicted for                                                          feloniously stealing, on the 19th of May                     , a counterpane, value 20 s. a pair of sheets, value 20 s. a tablecloth, value 2 s. a window-curtain, value 2 s. a candlestick, value 1 s. a rummer, value 8 d. a pair of decanters, value 3 s. a brush, value 1 s. a tea-spoon, value 2 s. the property of                                                                         William                            Parry                                                                                                                                                            , in a lodging-room            .</p>               <p>WILLIAM PARRY. I live at 23, Duke-street, Bloomsbury                                                      . My wife let the lodgings.</p>               <p>MRS. PARRY. I am the wife of                                  William                   Parry                                                                                       .                                  Ralph                   Manning                                                                                        took the lodgings of me on the last day of March. He was by himself. He had the front parlour, ready furnished, at twelve shillings a week. He brought Mrs. Davis with him.</p>               <p>Q. How long did they continue there - A. Seven weeks. I gave them a week's notice, and they went in pursuance of that notice.</p>               <p>Q. Have you since seen any part of your property - A. Yes; they sent part of it by strange people. Mr. Manning was gone out, and I pressed the woman prisoner to go out.</p>               <p>                                                      NOT GUILTY            .</p>               <p>First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Bailey.</p>            </div>
				
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