Elizabeth Nichols proceedingsdefend , Sarah Bell proceedingsdefend , Mary Still proceedingsdefend , and Esther Partridge proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Botolph Aldersgate , were indicted for privately stealing a Piece of Silk, and a Piece of Worsted Camblet, out of the Shop of Thomas Lownes proceedingsvictim , on the 8th Instant. The Evidence set forth, That the Prisoner and another Woman standing in the Street together, he thought them suspicious Persons, and thereupon observing them, he heard one of them say, do you three go in, and we two will stay in the Street. This increasing his Suspicion, he watch 'd them, and saw the three go into the Prosecutor's Shop, and the other two hanker about the Door; whereupon he went to a Shop over-against them, and told what he suspected, and after a while seeing the three come out, he and another seiz'd them all five, but one made her Escape. The Goods were found upon one of them, and it was plain they were all Confederates; but the Jury considering the Prosecutor had his Goods again, found them guilty of Petty Larceny only .