417. Thomas Wilson proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing three books, each entitled, Letters of Cicero, val. 4 s. the goods of Thomas King proceedingsvictim , June 11 .

Thomas King < no role > . I am a bookseller , and live in More-fields , these books were stolen out of my shop, I missed them within a quarter of an hour after they were gone. I know them to be mine by my private mark in them.

John King < no role > . I am brother to the prosecutor, I live within two doors of him. I bought these books of the prisoner at the bar; the day after I bought them my brother told me he had lost them. He came to my door again after this, I let my brother know of him, so we took him up and carried him before Alderman Benn, before whom he owned the fact.

Prisoner's Defence. I had two volumes of the Athenian Oracles, I exchanged them with the prosecutor's wife about two months before this.

Prosecutor. My wife had been dead above two months before.

Guilty .

[Transportation. See summary.]