322. (M.) Henry Incledon proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing 2 chintz curtains, val. 18 s. one quilt, val. 20 s. one linen sheet, val. 8 s. the goods of John Utteridge proceedingsvictim , June 6 . *

John Utteridge. I keep a publick house , the prisoner came to my house the 2d of June, and lodged with me four nights. The sixth in the morning he went away, and a rope was found hanging out of his room windov, fastened to it above, and the things mentioned in the indictment were missing, which were there when he went to bed. I saw the maid lock his chamber door when he went to bed, and she left the key in the door on the outside. I saw it unlocked the next morning.

Q. Have you met with your goods again?

Utteridge. No I have not, my lord.

James Read < no role > . I unlocked the door in the morning about a quarer before five; there was a cord fastened to a stape, and made like a ladder, and the things mentioned missing.

Prisoner's Defence.

I have lain at that inn at Hammersmith where the Prosecutor lives divers times, I always paid when I went to bed. This time the door was not locked, I came down and went out as usual.

Guilty .

[Branding. See summary.]