4. Look on the bright side -- he may have just been a common thief
It's hard to avoid viewing the past through today's eyes, but since the Queen's Magistrate took the word of a gay mugging victim as evidence against your ancestor, the case may not have had as much to do with homophobia as it did with the victim's heavy purse.
They say that 'behind every great fortune is a great thief'. Perhaps his real crime to his descendants was that he didn't amass a ton of money before he got nicked. :shrug:
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