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The Accused
The Crime
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From file: 4/612/2
Document: 3
Feb 21, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, St Brides Major

Plundering a shipwreck - the Salome - and stealing therefrom logwood, cotton bails, staves, copper etc. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Plundering shipwrecks

Accused
Mathew Grant, Yeoman
Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 3
Feb 21, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, St Brides Major

Plundering a shipwreck - the Sallome - and stealing therefrom logwood, cotton bails, staves, copper etc. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Plundering shipwrecks

Accused
John Leyson, Yeoman
Glamorgan, Coety
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
W(in 4/613/6 - 614/3 passim)

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 3
Feb 21, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, St Brides Major

Plundering a shipwreck - the Sallome - and stealing therefrom logwood, cotton bails, staves, copper etc. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Plundering shipwrecks

Accused
Henry Treharn, Yeoman
Glamorgan, Coety
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 3
Feb 21, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, St Brides Major

Plundering a shipwreck - the Sallome - and stealing therefrom logwood, cotton bails, staves, copper etc. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Plundering shipwrecks

Accused
Thomas William, Yeoman
Glamorgan, Coety
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 3
Feb 21, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, St Brides Major

Plundering a shipwreck - the Sallome - and stealing therefrom logwood, cotton bails, staves, copper etc. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Plundering shipwrecks

Accused
Richard Thomas, Carpenter
Glamorgan, Cowbridge
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 3
Feb 21, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, St Brides Major

Plundering a shipwreck - the Sallome - and stealing therefrom logwood, cotton bails, staves, copper etc. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Plundering shipwrecks

Accused
James Richard, Labourer
Glamorgan, Wick
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
W(in 4/613/6 - 614/3 passim)

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 21
Aug 30, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, Swansea

Obstructing prosecutor in the execution of his duty. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault on customs and excise officers, tax officials and toll collectors

Accused
William Dickinson, Mariner
Outside Wales, Whitehaven, co. Cumb.
Plea:
Prosecutor
Edward Edwards, customs officer
Result

Verdict:
No prosecution, never brought to trial?

Punishment:

Other:
W(in 4/613/2 - 614/4 passim)

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 23
Sep 1, 1738
Crime

Glamorgan, Laleston

Shoplifting cloth, nutmegs and money. According to prosecutor's examination and to recognizances, the shop was broken into during the night, but indictment is for shoplifting not burglary or breaking and entering. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Shoplifting 5/- +

Accused
Thomas Williams, Labourer
Glamorgan, Laleston
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Lewis Cradock
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
R, E

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 15
Sep 2, 1738
Crime

Monmouth, St Woolloos

Theft of a cow. Prosecutor informed at Cardiff fair that his cow was now at Llanwynno. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Cattle-stealing

Accused
David Morgan, Labourer
Glamorgan, Llanwynno
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
WIlliam Jones, St. Wooloos
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.

Punishment:
Transported for 7 years

Other:
R, E

From file: 4/612/2
Document: 14
Sep 27, 1738
Crime

Monmouth, Mynyddislwyn

Theft of cloth from prosecutor's rack or tenter hooks. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Theft from bleaching grounds / tenters

Accused
William John, Labourer
Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Thomas Evan, Mynyddislwyn
Result

Verdict:
Guilty tto the value of 1/- - partial verdi

Punishment:
Transported for 7 years

Other:
E, J