347. (L) Rebecca Holding , spinster , otherwise wife of William Lovegrove < no role > proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing one pair of linnen sheets, value 3 s, one copper pottage pot, one brass candlestick, one pair of bellows, one wooden pail, one iron shovel, the goods of James Hill proceedingsvictim , in a certain lodging room let by contract, &c. May 2 ++ .

Elizabeth Hill. The prisoner took a ready furnish'd lodging of me; the things mentioned in the indictment were lett with the room. They were missing, I charg'd her with taking them, she said she had pawn'd them, and told me where. I went and found them accordingly.

Q. from the prisoner. Was not the evidence along with me to pawn the things?

Hill. No, I was not.

Prisoner's defence.

They lent me them to pawn.

Guilty .

[Transportation. See summary.]