_Examined by Mr. Bolland_.—Will be twenty the first day of December next. Is an apprentice to Patrick, the potter, of Vauxhall. Has been with him about five years. Knows the Defendant, John Church, by sight. Has known him about two or three years. Church is a preacher. He, Witness, attended the congregation in the Chapel where Church preaches and has often seen him. Witness sleeps generally at his father’s. There are occasions upon which witness sleeps at his master’s house when he goes out of town. Church lived by his chapel, in St. George’s Fields, the Borough-Road. Came to take up his abode at Mr. Patrick’s the 25th of September, he came to sleep there that night. Witness slept there that night. Does not know whether he (Church) had been there before. Cannot say whether he had seen him there before. Knows that he slept there on the 25th September, and that he, witness, was there. Witness’s master that night was out of town; but where he cannot say. Mr. Church, witness’s mistress, the children, and the two maid servants, slept in the house that night. There was no other man in the house except himself and Church. Witnesses bed-room was the front parlour on the first floor over the kitchen. It is not a bed-room in common in the house. Witness slept there, because there was no other bed-room that he could sleep in. There was a temporary bed, therefore, put up for him there. Witness retired to rest about one o’clock. The reason for his being up so late was because there was a kiln burning, and he (witness) was obliged to sit up to let the man into the kiln when he came. It was necessary for him to sit up to attend that kiln, and to give the key to the man, Thomas West. Witness went to bed about one o’clock,—went to sleep directly he went to bed. Had not been asleep more than half an hour before he was awoke by some one putting his hands under the bed clothes, and laying hold of his private parts very tight. Witness put his hand out of the bed-clothes, and caught hold of him and asked him who he was? and laid hold of him, as near as he could guess, by the upper part of his arm; felt lower down, and found by the sleeve that he had got a man’s shirt on; found the wrist was buttoned; knows very well it was a man; could not tell that from the feel of the flesh. Witness was here asked by _Lord Ellenborough_ by what circumstance? and answered because he had got a man’s shirt on. The person, in answer to what he said, answered—“Adam, don’t you know me? I am your mistress,” in a faint voice, like a woman; it was not the voice of his mistress, Mrs. Patrick; witness knew the voice directly he heard it; it was Mr. Church’s voice; Church fled the room directly, that is he went out in a hurried step. Witness then got out of bed, and put on his small clothes and shoes, and went to the man up at the kiln. As he opened the door witness saw by the lamp that it was Mr. Church, and he had only his shirt on.