William Bond proceedingsdefend , of St. Vedaft alias Foster , was indicted for feloniously stealing Pussendorf's Introduction to the History of Europ, a Journal, Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium, the Clerk's Tutor in Chancery, Boyce on the 39 Articles, &c. the Goods of Anthony Barker proceedingsvictim , on the 1 st of February last. The Prosecutor deposed that he lost his Goods from his Shop or Stall in Gutter-Lane , and that he found them at Mr. Slater's in Petty France, who had stopt the Prisoner, offering them to Sale, and sent for him. Mr. Slater deposed that the Prisoner sold him 12 Books the Day before he stopt him, on which Day he brought him Boyce on the 39 Articles, whereupon he suspecting that the Prisoner did not come honestly by them, sent for the Prosecutor, who owned them to be his. Mr Slater's Daughter confirmed the same; and the Books were produced in Court and swore to by the Prosecutor. The Prisoner in his Defence said, that he was drinking with one at the Magpye in Bishopsgate-street, who asked him if he knew the Value of them, and desired him to sell them for him; but could not prove it, nor called he any to his Reputation, The Jury found him Guilty . Transportation .