Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
23rd February 1687
Thomas
Griffith
proceedingsdefend
, took his Tryal for stealing a
silver Cup, value 4 l.
on the 10th. of February
, being the proper Plate of the
Masters and Fellows of Baliol Colledge in Oxford
proceedingsvictim
. The Evidence against him were
Thomas
Sherin
< no role >
,
Matthew
Rutter
< no role >
, and others, by whose Testimony it appeared, that being apprehended in the Parish of St. Giles's in the Fields, upon his attempting to Sell another piece of Plate that was found about him, and known by the Inscription and Arms of the Colledge and Doner, upon Notice of which, one of the Fellows of the Colledge came up and testified as much in Court, nor did the Prisoner deny but that he had it near that Colledge, but alledged it was given him by a strange man to sell or otherwise to dispose of it; but not being capable of producing the party, or giving any satisfactory accounts of himself, he was found
guilty
of the Felony.
[Transportation. See summary.]