627. EDWARD FARMER proceedingsdefend was indicted for obtaining by false pretences eight loaves of sugar, value 4 l. 18 s. 3 d. the property of Samuel Noton proceedingsvictim , Benjamin Noton proceedingsvictim , and John Ewer proceedingsvictim , July 1st .

CHARLES GOODYER < no role > sworn.

I am clerk to Messrs. Noton and Ewer. On Wednesday the 1st of July, the defendant came with a note to our house, as from Mr. Axford, for eight loaves of sugar; I opened it and read it; I looked in his face and asked if he came from Mr. Axford; he said he did; I went up and showed it to one of the partners, who ordered me to deliver the sugar, which I did. I should not have delivered it, if he had not brought that note.

(The note was read in court. It was signed Lucas.)

WILLIAM BERRIFORD < no role > sworn.

I am shopman to Messrs. Noton and Ewer; the prisoner helped me to weigh the sugar; he was so awkard at putting it into the scale, that I asked him if he lived with Mr. Axford; he said he did, but had not lived long with him.

[Mr. Axford deposed, that he did not sent the prisoner to Messrs. Noton and Ewer's, for any sugar, and that no person of the name of Lucas lived with him, and that the note was not sent from their house.]

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I was called off the stand by a man who gave me a note, and took the goods of me; as I crossed the way; he said, they were to go into the crountry.

GUILTY Imp. 6 months .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.