The Indictment of Buckley and Shenton for highway robbery, 1781

On 12th September 1781, John Buckley and Thomas Shenton were indicted at the Old Bailey. They were accused of assault and highway robbery upon John Mawson, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and stealing from his person a pair of silver shoe-buckles, a silver stock-buckle, a linen stock, a silk handkerchief, a linen handkerchief, and a half-guinea and 120 copper halfpence, in monies numbered, the property of the said John on August the 17th 1781.

I am John Mawson. I live in Newman-street, and deal in cheese

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