570. ELIZABETH SMITH proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 3d of May , one pair of silver shoe buckles, value 6 s. the property of Elizabeth Silk proceedingsvictim .

ELIZABETH SILK < no role > sworn.

The prisoner was my weekly servant at two shillings and sixpence per week, my silver buckles were in my sister's place, and I lost them from the cupboard; she was taken up and brought to our house, she owned that she took them, and pledged them for six shillings, I saw the things at the Justice's, the prisoner was there then, what she said was taken down in writing.

Court. Then I will hear nothing of it unless the writing is produced.

JOHN GLEUN < no role > sworn.

I am a pawnbroker, in Spital-fields, I received the buckles from a woman that is in Court; I lent her six shillings upon them, the constable came afterwards to my shop. (The buckles deposed to.) One of the tongues is broke, and there is a flaw in one of them.

ELIZABETH WILLIAMS < no role > This name instance is in set 1548. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . sworn.

The prisoner applied to me to go of an errand to pawn a pair of buckles for a young man she lived with, I went and brought her the money, I knew the prisoner about two years ago, but I have not seen her for upwards of two years.

BENJAMIN NASH < no role > sworn.

I apprehended the prisoner, and the prosecutor said, she was the person that took the buckles, I then asked the prisoner what was become of the buckles, she said, that she did not pawn them, but one Williams pawned them, and asked me to see for Williams, I went to the pawnbroker's, and there I found the buckles.

GUILTY .

To be privately whipped and imprisoned six months in the House of Correction .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN.