London Courier and Evening Gazette 29 Mar 1802: Nathaniel Wedd's horse stolen

CAMBRIDGE. — At these Assizes which ended on Saturday last, the three following prisoners were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, viz. William Wright, charged on the oath of Mr. John Hill and others, with uttering and publishing as true, a forged Bank note, purporting to be a note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for £5 knowing the same to be false and counterfeited ; John Bullock, for uttering and publishing two notes, purporting to be notes of the Bank of England, for £10 each, knowing the same to be false and forged; and Joseph Pendall, for stealing a mare out of a paddock belonging to Nathaniel Wedd, Esq. of Trumpington. Pendall was reprieved before the Judge left the town. — Wright and Bullock are left for execution.

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