29. (M.) John Puttyford proceedingsdefend , was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Twyford proceedingsvictim , and stealing one cheese, value 3 s. half a bushel of flour, value 2 s. one loaf of bread, value 4 d. and one pair of stockings, value 1 s. the property of the said John, in his dwelling-house , Dec. 5 . +

John Twyford < no role > . I live in the parish of Kingsborough, near Edgware . I hired the prisoner to live with me for a year. He staid with me about six or seven weeks, and went away on the second of December instant. Last Sunday morning, when my maid got up, she found a casement open, which I knew was shut when I went to bed. I missed about a bushel of flour out of a sack in the kitchen, two cheeses, a loaf of bread, and a pair of stockings from off a line.

Q. Are you sure your house was made fast over night?

Twyford. It was; I bolted the door with two bolts between nine and ten o'clock. A neighbour of mine had lost an empty sack on the Saturday, and he was inquiring about; and at last the prisoner was found in a barn, about a mile and a half from my house. There I went and found about half a bushel of flour, a loaf of bread, and a cheese, and my stockings on the prisoner's legs. I knew the stockings to be my property by a hole at the heel, and the bread of our own baking. He owned before the justice that he took these things for want of victuals.

Robert Larking < no role > . I saw the prisoner in the barn with these things, and was before the justice when he was examined; he then owned the things were Twyford's property.

The prisoner said nothing in his defence.

Guilty of Felony only .

[Transportation. See summary.]