Sessions

 

Sessions Papers. Papers for 1723 July
Affidavits FILE - 3) Sarah Moakes re her settlement. [no ref. or date] Appeals.
FILE - 11) St. Leonard Shoreditch v. St. Giles Cripplegate - Sarah Moakes. [no ref. or date]

Sessions Bundles.
FILE - Epiphany Sessions 1773 - ref. QS2/6/1773/Eph/ - date: 1773 item:
Information: Dorothy Francis accused of stealing artichockes from the garden belonging to the father of William Moakes of Bermondsey, gardener - ref. QS2/6/1773/Eph/28 - date: 1773

Certificates of Protestant dissenting and Roman Catholic places of worship and related documents file - Soutwark, Christchurch. Protestant Dissenters. - ref. QS6/13/14 - date: 11 Apr 1822; Easter 1822 |_ [from Scope and Content] Certificate of 3 Queens Arms Court, Blackfriars Road. Sgd Messrs Williams and Hill, William Crawtter, Messrs Clark, Parker, Errington, Moakes, Page and Bayliss, George Watson, Mrs Cockell, James Baggarly, John Hayett, William Florio (addresses given)

 

Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Robert Moakes, theft: shoplifting, 30 May 1723.
Trial Summary: Crime(s): theft : shoplifting,
Punishment Type: transportation, (Punishment details may be provided at the end of the trial.)
Verdict: Part Guilty: theft under 5s,
Robert Moakes, of St. Giles Cripplegate, was indicted for feloniously stealing 13 Pair of Stockings, value 28 s. the Property of William Birch , in the Shop of William Cap , the 11th of May last. It appear'd by the Evidence that the Prisoner had been Servant to Mr. Cap, and came to the House on the Saturday Night, and the Goods were miss'd on the Monday. That suspecting him they apprehended him, and he confess'd the Fact, and sent for the Goods where he had sold them. The Prisoner pleaded, That he was in Danger of being arrested, and only took the Goods to raise present Money, designing to return them in two or three Days; but was apprehended before he had an Opportunity of doing so. The Jury found him Guilty to the Value of 4 s. 10 d. Transportation.