447. JOHN HUGH proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Edward Lascelles proceedingsvictim , Esq . about the hour of nine in the afternoon, on the 1st of August last, at the parish of St. Mary-le-bone , and feloniously stealing therein a man's livery cloath coat, value 13 s. his property: seven silver teaspoons value 7 s. two linen shirts, value 3 s. six neckcloths, value 4 s. a pair of silver tea tongs, value 3 s. seven pair of cotton stockings, value 7 s. a pair of silver shoe buckles, value 20 s. four woolen waistcoats, value 3 s. a pair of linen trowsers, value 12 d. two cotton handkerchiefs, value 2 s. a silk handkerchief, value 12 d. a linen ditto, value 12 d. a cotton night cap, value 12 d. fourteen yards of linen, value 6 s. a pepper box, value 1 d. a steel bodkin, value 2 d. two ivory ditto, value 2 d. a pair of steel scissars with silver bows, value 6 s. a steel watch chain, value 2 d. a pen knife, value 2 d. one top of pepper castor mounted with silver, value 2 d. and one pencil, value 1 d. the property of James Westmaker proceedingsvictim ; and five pair of cotton stockings, value 5 s. a pair of silk ditto, value 6 s. a shirt, unmade, value 3 s. two silk handkerchiefs, value 6 s. a muslin ditto, value 12 d. the property of Elizabeth Friend proceedingsvictim This name instance is in a workspace. , in the dwelling-house of Edward Lascelles < no role > .

ANN WESTMAKER < no role > sworn.

I know the prisoner. My husband, James Westmaker < no role > , lives butler to Captain Edward Lascelles < no role > , and the prisoner was his helper : Elizabeth Friend < no role > is a servant out of place; she slept with me; my apartment was over Captain Lascelles' stables; she brought some things there: on the evening of the 1st of August the things in the indictment (enumerating them) were taken away: the things belonging to my husband were worth five pounds: I left the prisoner in care of the place when I went out, and when I came home I found the stable door open; I returned about a quarter before nine: the prisoner was missing, and the things gone, and my room door was open; I double locked my room door when I went out, and left the prisoner in the stable; I saw the things at Justice Bond's, in Bow-street.

(The things produced and deposed to.)

Court. Is there any door out of the house into the stable? - Yes; but it is always fastened on both sides.

ROGER HODGKING < no role > sworn.

I took the prisoner with the things the 2d of August, at a publick-house at Hounslow; he had all the property except two pair of stockings and a pair of buckles; some were tied up; a waistcoat and shirt on his back, and a coat ready to put on.

Prisoner. I hope you will all be merciful to me: I was very much in liquor: I have not a friend within a hundred miles.

GUILTY 39 s. not of the breaking .

Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Lord KENYON.

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