256. (L.) Elisha Thomas Pease proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing five shillings and eight-pence halfpeny , the money of John Prosser proceedingsvictim and Robert Peak proceedingsvictim , March 22 . ++

John Prosser < no role > , and his partner, keeps a grocer's shop in Nicholas-lane ; having missed money out of the till several times, he mark'd half a crown, and sixty half-pence, in the presence of William Axford < no role > , with a scratch a-cross the nose of each, and William Axford < no role > put them in the till. The prisoner was his porter , and lived in his house. The next morning there was missing twenty of them. Axford and the prisoner went and joyn'd for a pint of purl as usual; Axford chang'd a sixpence, the prisoner gave his penny to the landlord, who gave it to Axford as part of the change, one halfpenny of which was one of those mark'd ; upon which he was order'd by Mr. Prosser to put out all the halfpence he had in his pocket, amongst which there were found seventeen mark'd ones, produced in court and depos'd to.

Guilty .

[Branding. See summary.]