208. (M.) Richard Adcock , otherwise Alcock proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing one grey gelding, value 5 l. the property of Jacob Grant proceedingsvictim , March 9 .

Jacob Grant < no role > the younger. I locked the stable-door, in which was a grey gelding of my father's, on the 9th of March, between six and seven in the evening.

Q. Where is this stable.

Grant. It is at Clapton , in the parish of Hackney. The next morning the stable was broke open, and the gelding was missing; we advertised him in several of the papers, and some days after we were informed, one Gabriel Holland < no role > had bought him. I went to his house, there I found the gelding, swore to him, as my father's property, and paid him the two guineas, advertised as a reward, and he delivered him to me.

Q. Where does Gabriel Holland < no role > live?

Grant. He lives at Swainton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire, one hundred and fifteen miles from London.

John Needham < no role > . I live at Swainton; I am servant to Mr. Holland. On the 16th of March the prisoner at the bar brought the grey gelding (which master delivered to Mr. Grant) to my master, he bought him of him for 4 l. 15 s.

Q. Was you there at the time?

Needham. I was not just at the time; I heard him say he bought him of a farrier for a small matter of money, and he had put him into a straw-yard a little time, tobe kept thereat 1 s. 6 d. a week.

John Waterfield < no role > . I keep the King's-head inn, at Market-Harborough; on the 11th of March the prisoner came to my house about four in the afternoon; the next day, being a very snowy day, he staid till about four in the afternoon.

Q. Was he on horseback?

Waterfield. He had a grey gelding.

Q. Have you seen that gelding since?

Waterfield. I have, at the house of Mr. Grant; he had a rowel under his belly.

Q. Who shewed you the horse at Mr. Grant's?

Waterfield. Mr. Grant the elder.

Q. to Jacob Grant < no role > . Is your father here?

Grant. No, my lord, he is not.

Q. Did you see your father shew the horse to Waterfield?

Grant. No, I did not.

John Lovet < no role > . I went with the prisoner to Mr. Holland's, when he sold him the gelding.

Q. Did you see him sell him?

Lovet. I did not; I was in the house, and they bargained out at the door.

Prisoner's defence.

I honestly bought the horse.

Acquitted .