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Bucks Assizes, Summer 1718
National Archives, ASSI 94/377
See 1662 Assizes for an introduction. The July 1718 records contain one case concerning Winslow.
[Latin] Joseph Phipps late of Winslow Labourer on 10 April 4 George [1718] by force and arms feloniously stole and took away 7 shillings in cash from the money of Thomas Stephens in his shop.
[verso] True bill. Mary Stephens and Elizabeth Clements sworn in court.
[added in another hand, in very abbreviated Latin] po(nit) se cul(pabilis) = He put himself (to the jury); guilty; 11d[?]
If this really says XId (it's not the way in which numerals are normally written in such documents), it probably means that he was found guilty of stealing 11d. Theft of a sum under a shilling counted as petty larceny, which would normally be punished by a whipping or being put in the pillory rather than being treated as a capital offence.
There is no further information about Joseph Phipps. Thomas Stevens served as constable of Winslow in 1719-20. Mary was apparently his wife; they had children baptised 1716-20. The nature of his shop isn't known.
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