stealing from him one Hat, Val. 3 s. one Handkerchief, Val. 6 d. one Cloath Coat, Val. 7 s. 6 d. one Walking Cane, with a China Head, Val. 5 s. one Snuff Box, and 3 s. and 3 d. in Money, numbered, Nov. 11 .

15. William Baker< no role > , Sugar-Baker , was indicted for forging and uttering a Warrant for the Delivery of three Chests of Bohea Tea, with Intent to defraud .

16. Catharine Connor< no role > , was indicted for publishing a false, forged, and counterfeit Will, purporting to be the Will of Michael Canty< no role > , Mariner , belonging to His Majesty's Ship the Namure , October 29 .

On Friday the 28th of December , about nine at Night, came a Letter from the Secretary of State, Duke of Newcastle's Office, signifying his Majesty's Pleasure, that Joshua West< no role > should be respited for a Month, from the Day that Execution was once ordered to be done upon him .

1. WILLIAM TIDD< no role > This name instance is in set 1128. , was, about this Season of the Year, arrived to the twenty-first Year of his Age, and was born at Deptford . His Parents gave him no Education, and dying when he was but now past Infancy, he never had the Advantage of any good Admonition, and seemed to be quite a Stranger to every Thing that he ought to have been acquainted with. The Seeds of Wickedness grew up in him very early, and he was always looked upon as an unlucky sad Fellow, always given to Profaneness and Debauchery. He was once bound Apprentice to a Barber in the Borough of Southwark , where he lived not long, but he played his thievish Tricks, and because he met with proper Discipline and Correction, his Stomach was too big to put up with it, and he run away. He had not been gone long, but some Friend happened to meet him, and brought him back to his Master, upon Promise of receiving him kindly; so he came again, and for a Week or ten Days behaved pretty well, but could hold out no longer. And now he began to keep Company, being about thirteen or fourteen Years of Age, and would stay out at Nights; and, coming home after the Family were in Bed, he found out Means to get into the House by a new way, which was not for some Time discovered; till at length he practised it so long, that his Master resolved one Night to watch him, and had the good Luck to find this Creep-hole, which was a little Sky-light over a Cistern they had in the back Part of the House; which was secured for the future, and Tidd receiving another pretty severe Correction, run away from his Master a second Time. He rambled up and down the Borough and St. George's Fields for some Time, till almost naked and penny-less; and having no Subsistence, but what begging, or his Wits procured for him, he says, Hunger and Want had persuaded him to return again to his Master, and to resolve to be a good Boy, and mind his Business. He had no where else to go, and Starving seemed to be before his Eyes, and what he dreaded; but to his Misfortune, he found his Master's Business had failed him, and he was gone off the Ground.

It was not long after this, that Tidd, in his Walks, fell into Company of those that taught him how to provide for himself; and though at the Risk of his Life he was prevailed upon to cast in his Lot among them, and to be Partaker of their Crimes. He was guilty, he says, of several little Thieveries six or seven Years ago; but being once in Danger of being taken up for a Robbery committed near the Borough , he was forced to play at Hide-and-seek for some time, till he had the good Luck to get on board a Vessel bound to the Streights and Newfoundland , and there he was out of Harm's Way for about twelve Months. Upon his Return he had got a little Money, which having no particular Friend to go to after being discharged from the Ship, he spent in drinking from one publick House to another, and keeping Company with lewd Women; so that did not last him long, but he was now again as much put to his Shifts as ever he had before been.