Here are accounts of some Jews who were convicted of stealing a watch and executed, from the Old Bailey records, December 1744. As you can see, the second, a woman named Hannah Moses, was married to Samuel, who was executed the February before for robbery. The writer of these accounts was the chaplain of the Old Bailey prison in London.
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I have definitely seen this before on a blog. Is it possible that you posted this once before, years ago?
ReplyDeleteIt is. I think it was something else, but it is *possible* that I double posted.
ReplyDeleteYou may have meant this or this.
I guess I post these when I'm busy with other stuff. ;-)
The past sucked.
ReplyDeleteAnd the future?
ReplyDeleteAn article precisely on these and similar testimonies was very recently published in Historia - a journal of the Israel Historical Society.
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