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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	example_n	young_a	youth_n	32	3	7.9285	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63612	The True narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly, which began on Wednesday the 10th of this instant October, and ended on Saturday the 12th of the same month giving an account of all the remarkable tryals there, viz, for high-treason, murders, fellonies and burglaries &c., with the criminals, names and places of committing their facts, with the number of those condemn'd to be hang'd, transported, and to be whip [sic]	England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex).	1683 (1683)	Wing T2832; ESTC R12721	3,923	4

sometime according to the season of the year Travil the Circuits and repear to Inns in Towns appointed for the Assizes and pretend to take up Lodgings for the Judges Attendance when indeed they had no other business but Robing or Stealing where ever they came and are said to out-do any that ever yet pretended to the Profession in all manner of wickedness though some of them have scarce seen sixteen years in the World the Gravest of the Gang not much above twenty but most of them have the Charracter of being Thieves almost ever since they were able to walk the Streets upon the said Tryal the Evidence was full and plain against them all upon which the Lord Chief Justice Jefferies sumed up the Evidence minding the Jury the Danger every Man in his own person as well as the person oi his Servants were in if such out-rages were not Examplary punished that the peace civil Government of the City was invaded by them besides the evil Example they might possible give to Youth being in a manner but Children and might with the more ease draw in many more young People with their dissolute way of living if they were not stopt in the Carreire of their wickedness and that they were a sort of people that Robbed every body they met It being their dayly practice to strole into all parts of the City and Country upon no other business and that several of them had received the Mercy of the Court for past offences and were become hardned in their wickedness One swearing he had done the Rogues business meaning the innocent honest Tallow-Chandlers Servant and attempted the like Mischief upon one of the Sheriffs Officers but their Villanies being to many to repeat his Lordship left the whole Charge to the Consideration of the Jury who brought them in Guilty of the Fellonies and Robberies of which they stood Indicted Robert Thomas Joseph Roberts and Jonathan Parsons were Indicted and Tryed for stealing a Gelding valued at 10. l. and upon Tryal of the Cause it appeared that the said Thomas and Roberts were no ways Consenting or privy to the Felony and the Jury brought them in not Guilty and set them up for Evidence and both of them declared the said persons brought the Gelding and employed one of them to Ride him and the other to sell him which was all they knew of the business and the Court was fully satisfied of their innocency and caused them to be immediately discharged without Fees and proceeded on the Tryal of Parsons only who was found Guilty The same Parsons was Indicted of a Felony and Burglary upon the House of one Jonathan Beck and stealing a Tankard and other Goods but the Prosecuter not being able to prove Matter of Fact alledging only some Circum stances he was found not Guilty of that Indictment Thomas Wade was found Guilty of stealing Tobacco to the value of 10. l. and Robert Dillaber was found Guilty of a F●lony of the same value Thomas Hernes and Jacob Horten were tryed for Kiillng John Harding at the Kings-Head in Fanchurch-Street brought in not Guilty Samuel Mathews was tryed for stealidg a Silver Tankard from Tho. Caucor and found Guilty Eliz. Green and Wm. Stanbrook were tryed for a Felony of the same Nature Green was Convicted and Stanbrook accquitred Hanah Pesar was tryed for taking a Watch from the person of Robert Rouse and Accquitted John Knight Thomas Bybody and Thomas Edmunds were all Convicted for stealing two Geldings Saturday Morning the Sessions met and proceeded in the business Mary Phelps was found Guilty of Murthering John Charlton in Covent-Garden and Francis Eggleston was found Guilty of a Robbery on the High-way and taking a Cravat Hat from Isaack Jacson William Clark was found Guilty of speaking Treasonable VVords concerning his Majesty and saying the present Fanatick Conspiracy or Plot was no Plot ordered to stand in the Pillory pay a Fine to the King of 100 Markes Charles Butler was Convicted of High-Treason for diminishing the Current Coin John Quarles and Charles Temple were found Guilty of Felony Divers others were tryed for Felonies of divers kinds and accquitted No possitive proof being brought against them in Fine The Court passed Sentence of Death upon ●7 Vez Eliz. Hare and Cha. Butler for High-Treason Mary Phelps for Murther and several Felonies of divers kinds 8 were Burnt in the hand and 8 Transported and 6 ordered to be VVhip'd which concluded the Sessions LONDON Printed for M. Steward 1683.