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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 December 2023), February 1767, trial of                      John                      Stewart                                                                                (t17670218-17).<hr/><h2>John Stewart, Theft &gt; grand larceny, 18th February 1767. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>147. (M)                                                       John                      Stewart                                                                                                           was indicted for                                                          stealing one stock bed, value 12 d. one woollen cover-lid, three blankets, one feather pillow, one cloth jacket, one cloth and callimanco waistcoat, one plaid waistcoat, one baize waistcoat, and one pair of cloth breeches            , the property of                                                       Alexander                      Michel                                                                                                                                , Jan. 28                  . ++</p>               <p>                                                Alexander                   Mitchel                                                                                        . I am a seaman                  ; I was ship-keeper                   to the ship Neptune, lying at Mr. Smith's wharf below the Hermitage                                                      ; I lay on board to take care of her; I was gone on shore to get my supper, I had shut my hatches down; I found the door open when I returned, which I had locked when I went out; I missed the things mentioned in the indictment, (mentioning them by name) from off my bed in the cabbin; the next witness can give a farther account.</p>               <p>                                                Alexander                   Dorrits                                                                                        . I keep a broker's shop in Ratcliffe-highway; the prisoner brought a bed, three blankets, and a rug to me, and said he was come from Russia, and that his name was Stewart; I bought them of him; after that, Mr. Mitchel and others came with a search-warrant for them, and I delivered them to him directly, and told him who I bought them of.</p>               <p>                                                James                   Smith                                                                                        . I am master of the ship; I went with the constable to Dorrit's house. I had been informed the goods had been carried there by two boys; when the prisoner was taken, he owned he took the goods out of the ship.</p>               <p>                                                Matthew                   Chesham                                                                                        . I am the officer; I had the prisoner in custody, he gave an account of every thing; I went with him where he said he had sold the jackets or waistcoats, and there we found them; there were four of them; (the goods produced and deposed to.)</p>               <p>Prisoner. I did take the things out of the ship.</p>               <p>                                                      Guilty            .                                                          T            .</p>               <p>There was another indictment against him.</p>            </div>
				
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