Robert Adams proceedingsdefend , of St. Botolph without Aldgate , was indicted for feloniously stealing 14 Silver Buttons value 20 s. the Goods of John Whaley proceedingsvictim on the 20th of November last. It appeared that the Prosecutor was a Servant at the Bull-Inn in White Chappel , and that the Prisoner came and by there in a Room where the Prosecutor's Box of Clothes were, and took the Buttons, off a Coat which was in the Box, and went away. The Prosecutor going for his Coat mist his Buttons and the Prisoner was suspected because he absented himself from the Inn, which he would not otherwise have been, being known there; and search being made after him they took him, when he confest he took them and sold'em for 14 s. his Confession before the Justice was read in Court, and he did not deny the Fact on his Tryal. The Jury brought him in Guilty to the value of 10 d. Transportation .