880. WILLIAM HENRY HOWARD proceedingsdefend was indicted for that he, on the 19th of April , feloniously did falsely make, forge, and counterfeit a certain order for the payment of 10l. (setting it forth, purporting to be a check on Sir John Lubbock < no role > , Bart., Lubbock, Foster, and Clarke), with intent to defraud John James Draper proceedingsvictim .

SECOND AND THIRD COUNTS. For feloniously uttering and publishing the same as true, with the like intent, he knowing it to be forged.

In the absence of any proof of the instrument being forged, the prisoner was

ACQUITTED .

First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Park.