proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. Dionys Back-church , was indicted for stealing 3 Dozen of Worsted Stockings, value 7 l. the Goods of John Bradbourn proceedingsvictim , on the 29th of June last. It appear'd that the Prisoner was employ'd to carry a Case of Stockings on board a Ship; and a while after a Woman going to sell some Stockings, was stopt, and declar'd she had them from the Prisoner's Wife, and she from her Husband; which Stockings were part of the Case he was entrusted with. He had confess'd that he had taken them out of the Case on the River of Thames ; but it not being prov'd that he had Possession of any of the Goods in London, he was acquitted .