the same For uttering [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] Matthew counterfeit Henson, Sarah, the wife of Walter Coulston, Henry Cleamoney, hav. ing other of ver, and others, with being common utterers of false and counterfeit money, that is to say, by having uttered and tenkind in pos- dered to the said Sarah Coulston, one false and counterfeit 15 Geo. I shilling, knowing it to be so, and at the same time having in their possession other false and counterfeit shillings and sixpences, besides what was uttered and tendered as aforesaid, contrary to the statute, &c. session, on c. 28 s. 3. (d) For feloni. s. 3. see 114, n. p. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] With feloously utter niously uttering to him the said I. B. on the 1st day of this ing counter feit shillings instant, at the Parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, on the the third of. day of December last, a piece of false and counterfeit fence, on 15 Geo 2. c. 28 money, made and counterfeited to the likeness of a piece of good, legal and current money and silver coin of this realm, notes, 2 vol. called a shilling, as and for a piece of good, legal and current money and silver coin of this realm called a shilling, well knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, she the said C. D. having been before convicted of a second and similar offence at the general Quarter Session of the Peace, held for the county of Middlesex, at the Session-house, Clerkenwell-Green, in the month of July, 1806, and being [* 76] thereupon adjudged to* suffer two years imprisonment, and to find sureties for her good behaviour for eight years more, to be computed from the end of the first two years. For feloni. counterfeit copper [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67,] with feloniously buying in the city of London, a quantity of counterfeit copper money, not melted down and cut in money, for pieces, at and for a lower rate and value than they, by less than its their denomination, did import and were counterfeited value, on 11 for. nominal Geo 3. c. 40. than their [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] For unFor exchang lawfully on the 19th day of April, instant, at, &c. exchanging guineas for more ing with him the said H. I. B. certain pieces of coined gold of the current coin of this realm, called guineas, giving and paying more in benefit, profit and advantage for the said coined gold so exchanged, than the same are declared by a certain proclamation of his late majesty King George the First to be current for in his majesty's realm, contrary to the statute in such case made and provided. nominal value. For feloni ously assem. bling in or der to be aiding in running un. FOR OFFENCES AGAINST THE REVENUE. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] Charged before me the said justice upon the oath of R. C. and others with feloniously being assembled with other persons, at, &c. on, &c. last, armed with offensive weapons, in order to be aiding and assisting in the illegal running and carrying away customed goods, on 19 (p). Geo II c. 34.. (ƒ) (d) See notes, 2 vol. 114. n. certain uncustomed goods, to wit, Hollands, Geneva, and also with then and there feloniously and forcibly hindering, obstructing and assaulting, the said R. C. an officer of excise, in the seizing and securing such goods, against the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] Receive For hinder. W. T. charged on the oath of I. K. and I. A. two of the offi- ing and mo. lesting the cers of his majesty's excise, for assaulting, resisting, op- officers of posing, and molesting and hindering the said I. K. and I. A. excise in the in the due seizing and securing a quantity of tea, which execution of was liable to be seized, and by force and violence attempting and endeavouring to rescue the said tea, so seized as aforesaid by the said I. K. and I. A. and assaulting and beating them in the execution of their duty, against the statute, &c. their duty. (8) custom [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] For for- For forcibly cibly resisting, hindering, affronting, abusing, beating and resisting wounding one A. B. one of the officers of his majesty's cus- house offi. toms, in the execution of his office on the 11th instant, in cers, on 19 the parish of Saint Paul, Deptford,* in the said county, to the Geo. III. c. hazard of his life, the said C. D. being then with others 69. s. 10 (h) armed with offensive weapons, to wit, clubs, whereby some [* 77] prohibited and uncustomed goods were forcibly carried and conveyed away by the said C. D. and others, after they had been seized by the said A. B. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with being For running found on, &c. instant, passing along a certain road in, &c. tea into this with two horses, laden with eight bags of tea, containing George 3.c. kingdom, 19 two hundred and fifteen pounds weight of tea, the same being 69. run into this kingdom. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] For that For an as he the said O. M. did unlawfully assemble himself together sault on one of his majes with several other persons armed with stones and brickbats ty's revenue in Buckbridge street in the parish of Saint Giles in the fields, officers in in the said county, upon the 27th day of September instant, the execu and did then and there forcibly hinder, affront, abuse, and tion of his wound the said C. D. to the hazard of his life, in the execu- mon law. tion of his said office. office at com into an ene. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for volun- For felonitarily, and feloniously, and without his majesty's licence, or ously saling the licence of his majesty's privy council, or of one of his my's port majesty's principal secretaries of state, or of the first lord of without li the admiralty, or other sufficient lawful authority, and with- cense, in or der to pro out any sufficient excuse for the same proceeding, and sail- cure spirits, ing in a certain vessel, called a cutter, from Broadstairs, in on 48 Geo. 3. (g) The 19 Geo. 3. c. 69. s. 10. empowers Justices to commit for this offence. (h) 5 Burr. 26 40, ante 2 vol. 122, 3. Under this act the c. 84. s. 9. For taking stams off bills of ex change to transfer them to others, on 12 Geo. 3. c. 48. (i) For getting stamps off them on the county of Kent, to a certain harbour upon the coast of his majesty's enemies, that is to say, to the harbour of Dunkirk, upon the coast of France, with intent to take on board certain spirits, to wit, Geneva and Brandy, against the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for feloniously and fraudulently cutting, tearing, or getting off certain marks or stamps for three several bills of exchange, in respect of which certain stamp duties were payable, with intent fraudulently to use such stamps or marks upon certain other bills of exchange made by him the said C. D. in the city and county of the city of Exeter, to wit, a certain bill of exchange, dated the 5th day of January, 1805, drawn by the said C. D. on and accepted by Messrs. E. T. and Co. payable to his order for the sum of 1007. payable three months after date, and indorsed by him. One other bill of exchange of the same date and also drawn, accepted, and endorsed in the same manner, for 30l. payable three months after date. other bill of exchange of the same date, and drawn, accepted, and indorsed in like manner, for 201. payable three months after date, with intent to defraud his majesty, contrary to the statute, &c.. And one [Commencement* and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for fraudulently and feloniously getting off six stamps, in respect writs to put whereof certain duties are denoted to be paid from three pieothers, on 12 ces of parchment, called writs, with intent to use such stamps Geo. 3. c 48 for other writs, in respect whereof such duty is payable. On 24 Geo. 3. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for feloc. 53. for niously transposing and removing, and causing, and procurtransposing a stamp from ing to be transposed and removed from one piece of wrought one piece of plate to another piece of wrought plate, to wit, a cream pot, plate to ano a certain mark, stamp, and impression, made with a certain ther (k) mark and stamp, used by the company of goldsmiths in London, and with selling the said cream pot with the said transposed mark, stamp, and impression, well knowing the same to have been transposed as aforesaid, against the statute, [* 78] &c. For an assault on a FOR OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for asconstable in saulting, beating, bruising, and wounding one N. Ŏ. one of the executi. the constables of the parish of St. Giles, in the execution of on of his of his office, against the peace, &c. fice (1) [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with asFor striking saulting and striking one O. H. while in the execution of in the execu. his duty as one of the watchmen of the parish aforesaid, and a watchm:n (i) Ante 2 vol. 141. (k) Ante 2nd vol. 141. (1) See notes, 2 vol. 144. office. for which offence, I, the said justice, have and do hereby ad- tion of his judge her to forfeit the sum of five pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, which said sum hath been demanded of and from her the said Hannah Carroll, by me the said justice, but which she has refused to pay, &c. house of [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] upon the For escapoath of, with having unlawfully and wilfully escaped ing from the from the house of correction at Clerkenwell, and from and correction out of the custody of the keeper thereof before the expiration when there of a certain term, for which he the said William Smith was ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour therein, against the peace, &c. in execution of a sentence. commitment [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for that For breaking he on, &c. last, being a prisoner in a certain prison, called a prison on Tothill Fields Bridewell, in the said county, in the lawful upon a custody of Henry Bothwell, the keeper of the said prison, charge of ob under and by virtue of a warrant of commitment under the taining hand and seal of William Phillips, esquire, one of his majes-false preten goods under ty's justices of the peace for the said county,* charged upon ces. (7) the oath of Henry Scambler, and his wife Catherine, with [* 79] having knowingly and designedly, by the false pretence of his being the owner of a boat on the Paddington canal, obtained from him the said Henry Scambler a quantity of household furniture, of the value of twenty-seven pounds, eighteen shillings and sixpence, with intent to cheat and defraud him of the same, contrary to the statute, &c. did then and there unlawfully and forcibly break the said prison, and effect his escape out of and from the same, against the peace, &c. of a rogue 5. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] upon oath, Commitment with being an incorrigible rogue, for that he the said Henry and vagaJohnson being adjudged a rogue and vagabond, by the bond for general quarter sessions of the peace holden for the said breaking pri city and liberty, at the Guildhall, King-street, Westminster, son, whereby on Thursday, the twenty-third day of October, one thousand incorrigible eight hundred, and ordered to be kept and detained in the rogue, under house of correction at Tothill Fields to hard labour for six 17 Geo. 2. c. months, did, on, &c. break or escape out of the said house of correction before the expiration of the term for which he was ordered to be confined, contrary to the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] For that For escaping he the said C. D. having been convicted of grand larceny at from the the session of the general gaol delivery at Newgate held for where defenlighters the county of Middlesex, at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, dant was in on the thirteenth day of September last, and ordered to execution of hard labour, for the space of two years, in removing sand, a sentence. soil, and gravel from and cleaning the river Thames, did, on, &c. last, escape from the person or persons having the (m) See notes, 2 vol. 159. (n) See 2 vol. 159 to 165. ly conveying lawful custody of him, before the expiration of the term for which he was so ordered to hard labour, contrary to the statute, &c. On suspicion [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] On susof felonious. picion of feloniously conveying to one J. F. a prisoner in instruments the House of Correction for the said county, a certain ininto a prison, strument, to wit, a skeleton key, without consent of the in order to keeper of the said house, with intent to assist the said J. F. assist a pri- and divers other prisoners in making their escape, they the cape, on 16 said J. F. and the said other prisoners having been convicted Geo. 2. c. 31. of felony, and being lawfully detained in the said House of Correction, in execution of their respective sentences, contrary to the form of the statute, &c. soner to es s. 2. (o) For feloni ously conveying in. struments and a dis [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] For feloniously conveying instruments and disguise, to wit, women's apparel and a saw, into the prison of Tothill Fields Bridewell, in the city and liberty of Westminster and county guise into a of Middlesex, to aid, assist and prison, in or of W. L. procure the escape der to assist and for personally aiding and assisting the said W. L. the escape of in effecting the same; he the said W. L. being lawfully a person committed a prisoner to the said prison by a warrant of charged with commitment under the hand and seal of G. R. esquire, one felony, on 16 Geo 2. c 31. of his majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said s. 2..(p) city and liberty of Westminster, dated the 10th day of Sep[80] tember last, and also detained on the 13th day of the said For rescuing a prisoner out of the month of September, by warrant of detainer under the hands day of [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] For violently assaulting the said G. K. when he was in the lawful custody of execution of his office, he being the servant employed by one of the Mr. J. K. the Governor of the House of Correction at deputy keep- Clerkenwell, and then in his duty and service of his said house of cor. master, and for unlawfully rescuing from his lawful custody ers of the (0) See notes, 2 vol. 165, n. p. ante 2 vol. 165. |