707, 708. JOHN PEDLEY proceedingsdefend and ELIZABETH CHALKLEY proceedingsdefend were indicted, the first for stealing 26 lb. weight of tea, value 7 l. the property of George Bennet proceedingsvictim ; and the other for receiving the above goods, well knowing them to have been stolen , July 26 .

DAVID HUGHES < no role > sworn.

I am servant to a Mr. Territ who lives at London-wall. On the 24th of July I carried a large parcel to the Oxford-arms in Warwick-lane , directed to Banbury in Oxfordshire, Bennet was the carrier .

THOMAS HUNT < no role > sworn.

I am book-keeper at the Oxford-arms. I received a truss from Hughes to go to Banbury; I did not know what the contents of it were.

ALEXANDER SCOTT < no role > This name instance is in set 1530. sworn.

I am engine keeper of St. Andrew's Holbourn. On the 26th of July I saw the prisoner with a bundle under his arm in Union-court, Holbourn; he delivered it to Catharine Chalkley < no role > , the bundle was broke, and the tea running out; she put it in her apron, then they parted; she went up Snow-hill, I followed her and got a constable, and she was apprehended with the bundle upon her head; this is the bundle.

(The tea was deposed to by Benjamin Hopps < no role > , the servant of Mr. Terret.)

HENRY IBBOTSON < no role > sworn.

I took Chalkley; she said she was to carry the parcel to Smithfield; upon advertising it I found out the owner of it.

PEDLEY's DEFENCE.

I never saw the tea nor the woman till I was taken before the alderman.

CHALKLEY's DEFENCE.

Going along I met this man; he asked me to carry the parcel for him to the pitching place in Smithfield, he was to pay me for it; he bid me say before the alderman that I knew nothing of it.

BOTH GUILTY .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.

[Imprisonment. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]