What sorts of crimes do women commit?  The truth, of course, is that women commit the same crimes that men do, although in different numbers and proportions.  This report on a trial for conspiring to kill the king of England in 1683 is rounded out by a series of far less serious crimes, among which women are charged with clipping – that is, removing precious metal from the edges of coins (acquitted for lack of evidence), stealing lace (cleared), theft of goods worth 5 pounds (cleared), and witchcraft (acquitted in spite of many accusations by witnesses because the defendant's minister testified that her faith was satisfactory).