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Bedford Summer Assizes: R. v. Wm. Cripps for felony & burglary: Brief for Serjt. Prime:- Wm. Cripps of Ur. Gravenhurst for breaking and entering house of Jas. Poulton in sd. parish, and taking a silver watch, gold & silver coins, 2 waistcoats (silk & damask), 3 linen shirts, 2 pr. silver shoe-buckles & 1 pr. knee-buckles, 3 gold rings, 6 silver spoons, tea canister with green tea, and 2 pr. worsted stockings. The case is based on the confession of bro. Laur. (tried at last Assizes and since executed). They also took bread & cold pork. They set out for London and sold the things (the watch to a goldsmith in St. Martin-in-the-Fields. On 15 Feb. Wm. Cripps went to his father-in-law Oddy at Winslow and gave him the canister & tea; wife joined him from Eversholt. On hearing of Laur. Cripps' arrest he went to London, calling himself Wm. Yarrow. Said if anyone offered to take him he would 'rip them up' before he would be taken. Arrested in Southwark.

Summer 1754

From: 1754 To: 1754

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Lucas,
Cripps, William,
Prime,
Poulton, James,
Cripps, Laurence,
Oddy, William,
Cripps,
Yarrow, William

specific justices of the peace, burglary, Assizes, felony, sergeant, breaking & entering, private buildings & land, park keeper, silver, watches, gold, cutlery, tea, stockings, worsted, executions, silk, clothing, linen, shoes, bread, pork, goldsmith, married woman, general family, travel, threats, general legal process, UPPER GRAVENHURST, BEDFORD, London, Saint Martin in the Fields, Winslow, EVERSHOLT, Southwark