| March 12th, 2009 |
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So. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey are available (free!) online. Records from 1674 to 1913. I have to go through them as part of my prep for my history workshop tomorrow. (I only JUST took my meds, so I'm not feeling I have to be in study mode quite yet.) It does contain a fair amount of stuff that's really quite interesting.
And sometimes disconcerting. This is the summary of the crime of a man hanged at Tyburn for Piracy on the High Seas:
A bill of indictment was found by the Grand Inquest, against George Geery, and others, for piratically and feloniously boarding a Dutch hoy, called the Derge Sustures, the property of persons to the jurors unknown, upon the high Seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, on the 15th day of August, 1768, about three leagues from Beachy-head, on the coast of Sussex, in this kingdom, and assaulting Peter Bootes, then master thereof, and robbing him of several hats, the property of persons to the jurors unknown.
Several hats?
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