Lancaster Lent Assizes Liverpool Mercury April 7^th 1815

There were 89 prisoners for trial, one having been committed after our last publication viz. William CABBAGE alias LODGE for stealing a gelding , the property of John CAMPLIN at Manchester

The following prisoners have already been tried:

Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM (aged 35) for stealing Bank notes etc. to the amount of £36 from Charles KNIGHT of Liverpool

Nicholas CUNNINGHAM (52) for receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen – Guilty

Martha TOWNES (25) for uttering base coin, at Cheetham – Guilty

William RIMMER (19) for stealing  gold seals, the property of Samuel YATES at Liverpool

John LARGE (19) for a highway robbery at Manchester –Guilty

James CUMMINGS (52) for stealing four silver watches, &c. in the house of Thos. O’BRIAN at Liverpool

Thomas KAINE (27) for having forged notes in his possession at Liverpool – Pleaded Guilty

William Butterworth SHARPLES (35) and James DAVENPORT (45) for having forge notes, at Blackburn – Pleaded Guilty

John MONTGOMERY (22), a black, for falsely assuming the name of John GLOVER for the purpose of receiving £40 due to the said GLOVER, as a seaman on boar one if His Majesty’s ships of war- Guilty

Ellen McCARTHY (20) for stealing eleven  bank notes from James CARDWELL at Liverpool

Jenny CHEETHAM (45) for uttering forged notes at Oldham –Aquitted

John WARBURTON (24) for robbing Ann GREGORY of sixpennyworth of copper near Over Darwen – Guilty

Thomas ROBINSON (21) and Thomas TAYLOR (21) for high-way robbery at Manchester –Aquitted

Samuel JACKSON (30) for having forged notes at Whalley – Pleaded Guilty

Thomas CLAYTON (54) for having forged notes in his possession at Spotland near Rochdale – Pleaded Guilty

Margaret O’NEILL (65) for uttering base coin at Liverpool, at a lower rate thn it did, by it’s denomination, import –Guilty

Moses OWEN, alias WOODINGTON , alias BRYANT (24) and James CRIB (17) for stealing horses at Liverpool – Guilty

Abel ASPINALL (18) Jeremiah ANDREWS (21) and James Dighton ROBERTS (20) for burglary in the house of James TANTON at Liverpool – Guilty

John MORGAN (17) for stealing divers articles, the property of George SLATER, Hugh HAMILTON and William NELSON at Liverpool – Guilty

Henry CUNLIFFE (11) For stealing a letter in the Post Office Preston- Acquitted

Henry CORNISH, for a burglary at the house of  Henry SANDERS, at Liverpool –Guilty of stealing to the value of 39s

Thomas BLACKLEGE (17) for picking the pocket of George HOLT at Manchester – Acquitted

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