In Days of Old: Peeps into our County’s Past: 150 Years Ago: From the Essex Chronicle of 1779: … Friday morning our Assizes ended, when seven prisoners were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death, but five of them were reprieved before the judges left the town, the other two, convicted of breaking into the house of Wm. Pincent and stealing some silver plate, still remain under sentence, and are to be executed on Friday next …
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