Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

23rd February 1687

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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.

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