Front matter from The Old Bailey Proceedings, 22nd February, 1781.

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: f17810222-1

THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS ON THE KING's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the CITY of LONDON; AND ALSO, The Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex; HELD AT JUSTICE HALL in the OLD BAILEY, On Thursday the 22d of February, 1781, and the following Days;

Being the THIRD SESSION in the Mayoralty of The Right Honble. Sir WATKIN LEWES , Knt. LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND BY JOSEPH GURNEY ,

NUMBER III. PART I.

LONDON:

Printed for JOSEPH GURNEY (the PROPRIETOR) And Sold by M. GURNEY, No. 34, Bell-Yard, near Temple-Bar.

MDCCLXXXI.

THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS UPON THE

KING's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery for the CITY of LONDON, &c.

BEFORE the Right Honourable Sir WATKIN LEWES , Knt. LORD MAYOR of the City of London; The Hon. Sir HENRY GOULD , Knt. one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; The Hon. EDWARD WILLES , Esq. and the Hon. FRANCIS BULLER , Esq. two of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's-Bench; JAMES ADAIR , Serjeant at Law, Recorder; and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer of the City of London, and Justices of Gaol Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex.

London Jury.

William Jennings , William Dyer , Thomas Lancaster , William Jewell , John Bidder , Robert Lloyd , Thomas Nichols , Henry Brind , Robert Wyatt , Thomas Taylor , Thomas Woolliscraft , John Ferritt ,

First Middlesex Jury.

Samuel Harman , John Braver , James Drawater , John Biddell , Timothy Birchmore , Joseph Nourse , Joseph Tett , Thomas Wooloton , Matthew Denton , Samuel Norgrave , John Masson , William Massey ,

Second Middlesex Jury.

George Ward , William Hawthorn , James Linton , John Williams , William Sparrow , John Pittaway , John Roper , Thomas Simons , John Quick , Robert Morley , Edward Davis , George Griffith ,