The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-19 00:00:00

SHEEP STEALING.

Thomas Termer, charged with .reeling 20 sheep,
the prope►ty of Mrs. Ira, of Claverley.
It appeared that I'. Burton, ►hepherd to Mr.
Lea, had counted the sheep the eveoittg before the
rubbery; neat spurning he t►,ced them through •
gate in the fence, nod afterwards saw them, end
identified one of them by a spot on the foot.
The Bailiff sad sou her witness also identified
the sheep.

Thomas Pierce, s labourer, went in pursuit of
the Prisoner, and loused Into between Kiddertuitia
ster and Worcester with the sheep.
Samuel Nightingale, a butcher, met Prisoners
and asked where he was going ; Prisoner offered to
sell the sheep for 40a. r head, and afterwards
agreed to take 305.; witness suspecting they were
stolen, asked Prisoner to dive them to a public-
house, and there a constable apprehended him.
Guilty—Death.

Oat/4, Denlh.—Rich. Dairies, charged with breaking into
the house of Francis Lloyd Bayley, of Preston Brockhurst,
and stealing a hat and other article., his property; Mary
Lloyd, charged with breaking into the house of fobs War.
rington, and stealing thereont divers goods and chattels, his
property; George Adorns, fur br.akieg intu the
house of Mr. Edwards, of Winfield.

Transported for *ewes years—Wm. Bsyley, cloned with
stealiug a riddle and txidlr, tee property of Mr. Bill, West
Snots'; sod Joseph Huxley, fur stealiog $ scythe, the pro-
perty of Mr. Ferriogtos, of Press.

CAUSES.
DOB DEN. POWYS, JUN. CLERK, D. JONES
AND ANOTUER.

This was an ejectment csuse, in which the Rev.
Edward Powys, as Plaintiff, sought to recover
thirty acres of land, being pmt of Sutton farm, in
the county of Montgomery, and now in the possession
of the Defendants.

On the part of the Plaintiff it was proved, that
the occupiers of Sutton farm had regularly paid to
the Powys family, at Berwick, the yearly rent of
61. for certain lands, intermixed with other lands
constituting that farm ; a deed of conveyance was
produced, of the date of 1736, wherein the great
grandfather of the Plaintiff (among other things
conveyed to his heirs) particularly specifits thirty
acres of land, at Sutton, it, the county of Mont-
gomery, then or late in the occupation of Arthur
Morgan, Esq. and intermixed with his lauds.
It was attempted to be proved on behalf of
the Defendants that the six pounds per annum,
paid by theta to the Powys family at Ber.
wick, was not as rent for land, but after the manure
of fee farm radii, either for the whole or some por-
tion of the land then in the holding of the Dr.
feudant. To support this plea a deed was prosluc-
ed, dated 1754, wherein the assignees of Roleit
Morgan, Esq. an insolvent debtor, made over the
estate of Sutton farm to George Morris, and in
which deed it was specifically mentioned that the
said farm was subject to the encunahrance of a chief
rent of a 9a. 2:1. per sununi to Earl PORI!, sad
61. a year to the representatives of the Poays fa-
mily. at Berwick. This the Learned Counsel con-
tended was proof that the payment was conaidered
and made alter the manner of a fee farm real, and
not as rent paid by a tenant to a landlord. Another
presumptive evidence that the Powys family consi-
dered it in that light was, the circumstance of their
having uever during the long period of more than
70 year., attempted to obtain a proper tent fur their
laud, having never even slumlord to raise it from
the original suits of 61. per annum.
These objections were overruled by Plaintiff's
Counsel, and receipts were ',lnduced which did out
specify that the pains were fur tee farm rents; sail
the Jury, under the direction of his Lordship, re-
turned their verdict for the Plaintiff.