For a misdemea [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] With unnor in uttering a lawfully uttering and tendering in payment to the said C. D. one counterfeit six pence, on 15 G. 2. piece of false and counterfeit money made and counterfeited to c. 38. s. 2. (a). the likeness and similitude of the good and current coin of this realm, called a sixpence, well knowing the same to be false, forged, and counterfeited, contrary to the statute, &c. The like in another form. The same in another form. For uttering counterfeit mo ney, having other 15 Geo. 2. c. 28. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For uttering and tendering in payment to the said C. D. upon the 18th day of April, instant, a certain false and counterfeit piece of money, knowing the same to be so, as and for the true and lawful silver coin of this kingdom, called a sixpence, contrary to the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] With unlawfully and unjustly uttering to the said S. D. three pieces of false and counterfeit money and coin, made and counterfeited to the likeness and similitude of three pieces of good money and silver coin of this realm, called shillings, as and for three pieces of good and lawful current money and silver coin of this realm, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, contrary to the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] Matthew Henson, Sarah, the wife of Walter Coulston, Henry Cleaver, of the same kind and others, with being common utterers of false and counterin possession, on feit money, that is to say, by having uttered and tendered to the said Sarah Coulston, one false and counterfeit 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. s. 3. (b). For feloniously feit shillings, the third offence, ou [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] With uttering counter- feloniously uttering to him the said I. B. on the first day of this instant, at the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, on the day of December last, a piece of false and counterfeit money, made and counterfeited to the likeness of a piece of good, legal and current money and silver coin of this realm, called a shilling as and for a piece of good, legal and current money and silver 15 Geo. 2. c. 28. s. 3. (b). (a) See notes, ante, vol. ii. 112, n. (b). (b) See notes, ante, vol. ii. 114, n. (a). 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 thereupon adjudged to suffer two years' impri- [76] sonment, and to find sureties for her good behaviour for eight years more, to be computed from the end of the first two years. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] With For feloniously buying counterfeloniously buying in the city of London, a quantity of coun- feit copper money terfeit copper money, not melted down and cut in pieces, at for less than its and for a lower rate and value than they, by their denomination, 11 Geo. 3. c. 40. did import and were counterfeited for. nominal value, on [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For For exchanging unlawfully, on the 19th day of April, instant, at, &c. exchang- than their nomiguineas for more ing with him the said H. 1. B. certain pieces of coined gold, of nal value. 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. FOR OFFENCES AGAINST THE REVENUE. in running uncustomed goods, on 19 Geo. 2. c. 34 (u). [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] Charged For feloniously assembling, in or before me the said justice upon the oath of R. C. and others, der to be aiding 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 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 W.T. charged on the oath of I. K. and I. A. two of the officers (a) See notes, ante, vol. ii. 122, n. (a). (b) The 19 Geo. 3. c. 69. s. 10. empowers justices to For hindering and molesting the of ficers of excise in the execution of their duty (b). For forcibly resisting customhouse officers, on 19 Geo. 3. c. 69. s. 10 (a). [ 77 ] For running tea 19 Geo. 3. c. 69. For an assault on ecution of his of of his majesty's excise, for assaulting, resisting, opposing, and molesting and hindering the said I. K. and I. A. in the due seizing and securing a quantity of tea, which 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 1. K. and I. A., and assaulting and beating them in the execution of their duty, against the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For forcibly resisting, hindering, affronting, abusing, beating and wounding one A. B. one of the officers of his majesty's customs, in the execution of his office on the 11th instant, in the parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, in the said county, to the hazard of his life, the said C. D. being then with others armed with offensive weapons, to wit, clubs, whereby some 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 found on, &c. instant, passing along a certain road in, &c. with two horses, laden with eight bags of tea, containing two hundred and fifteen pounds weight of tea, the same being run into this kingdom. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For that one of his ma- he the said O. M. did unlawfully assemble himself, together jesty's revenue officers in the ex- with several other persons armed with stones and brickbats, in fice at common Buckridge Street, in the parish of Saint Giles in the Fields, in the said county, upon the 27th day of September, instant, and did then and there, forcibly hinder, affront, abuse, and wound the said C. D., to the hazard of his life, in the execution of his said office. law. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For voluntarily, and feloniously, and without his majesty's licence, or the licence of his majesty's privy council, or of one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, or of the first lord of the admiralty, or other sufficient lawful authority, and without (a) 5 Burr. 2640, ante, vol. ii. 122, 3. Under this act the defendant cannot insist on being bailed. Id. ibid. any sufficient excuse for the same proceeding, and sailing in a certain vessel, called a cutter, from Broadstairs, in 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. change to trans c. 48 (a). [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For For takingstamps feloniously and fraudulently cutting, tearing, or getting off off bills of excertain marks or stamps from three several bills of exchange, fer them to in respect of which certain stamp duties were payable, with others, on 12 G.S. 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 £100, payable three months after date, and indorsed by him. One other bill of exchange of the same date, and also drawn, accepted, and indorsed in the same manner, for £30, payable three months after date, And one other bill of exchange of the same date, and drawn, accepted, and indorsed in like manner, for £20, payable three months after date, with intent to defraud his majesty, contrary to the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For [ 78 ] fraudulently and feloniously getting off six stamps, in respect For getting stamps off writs whereof certain duties are denoted to be paid from three pieces to put them on of parchment, called writs, with intent to use such stamps for others, on 12 G.3. other writs, in respect whereof such duty is payable. c. 48. On 24 Geo. 3. c. 53, for transposing a stamp [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For feloniously transposing and removing, and causing and procuring to be transposed and removed, from one piece of wrought from one piece of plate to another piece of wrought plate, to wit, a cream pot, (b). plate to another a certain mark, stamp, and impression, made with a certain mark and stamp, used by the company at 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, &c. (a) Ante, vol. ii. 141. (b) Ante, vol. ii. 141. For an assault on a constable in the office (a). FOR OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For as execution of his saulting, beating, bruising, and wounding one N. O. one of the constables of the parish of St. Giles, in the execution of his office, against the peace, &c. For striking a watchman in the execution of his office. For escaping from the house of correction, when there in execution of a sentence (b). charge of obtain [ 79 ] [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] With assaulting and striking one O. H. while in the execution of his duty as one of the watchmen of the parish aforesaid, and for which offence, I, the said justice, have and do hereby adjudge 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. [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] Upon the oath of, with having unlawfully and wilfully escaped from the house of correction at Clerkenwell, and from and out of the custody of the keeper thereof, before the expiration 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. For breaking a [Commencement and conclusion as ante, 57 to 67.] For that prison on commitment upon a he, on, &c. last, being a prisoner in a certain prison called Tothill Fields Bridewell, in the said county, in the lawful custody of Henry Bothwell, the keeper of the said prison, under and by virtue of a warrant of commitment under the hand and seal of William Phillips, esquire, one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, charged upon the oath of Henry Scambler, and his wife Catherine, with 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. (a) See notes, ante, vol. ii. 159. 144. (b) See notes, ante, vol. ii. (c) See ante, vol. ii. 159 to 165. |