Lived as shopman with Miss E. Gregory, has been twice a bankrupt, has been with Miss Gregory for 6 months: remembers Mrs. P. coming into the shop on the 8th of August: was at the time, measuring a box of white lace at the upper end of the left-hand counter on the inside, the lace was folded round pale blue cards, which were marked: placed the bottom of the box on his right hand, and the lid on the left: the cards unmeasured were on the cover, those measured, marked and ticketed were put in the box: on the tickets were the quantities measured: when Mrs. P. came in no customer was there: but one person came in for a few minutes only, Miss Gregory was at the bottom of the right-hand counter, Mrs. P. asked if the laces were come from London, Miss G. said no, Mrs. P. then desired to see the lace she had seen the day before, Mrs. P. looked over part of the laces Miss G. had taken down, and made choice of what she had fixed on the day before: Miss G. called him from the place at which he had been sitting, to measure the laces, which he did: had measured and passed 6 cards of white lace from the lid into the bottom of the box, when he was called by Miss G.—remembers that the last card he had put into the box was very much defaced: did not use the old card but took a new one, and put the shop mark on it: the 6 cards just filled the bottom of the box, the last card was put in the corner of the box, the farthest from the door, was in the act of measuring the seventh when he was called: put the cover with the unmeasured laces on the chair, and on them put the seventh card: measured the black lace Mrs. P. bought: Raines was desired to put the loose black laces into the box, which she did in the inside of the counter, Mrs. P. was on the outside: rolled the bought lace on a small piece of card, some paper was close by, put the lace in it & folded the paper up, (the witness shewed the way with another piece of paper, in which he had folded it) delivered the paper to Mrs. P. who gave him a 5l. note for it, which he carried to Gregory to change: had not stirred from the spot on which he stood, ’till he delivered the lace to Mrs. P. and when Gregory had given the change, she went down below; when he received the change from Gregory he turned round and observed that Mrs. P. removed to the other end of the counter, standing with her face down the shop, and the box of white lace on her left hand: passed up to her in the inside, the shawls on the railing first obscured his sight, but when he got up far enough to see her, he saw her left hand come out of the white lace box, with the card of white lace in her hand, which she drew under her cloak; in drawing her hand so quick under her cloak, she rather drew the cloak on one side, which discovered the corner of the card, she had it in her left hand, the card of black lace was in her right: after this Miss G. was down stairs, still Miss Raines & Miss Leeson were in the shop: at that time he did not examine