. . . "The prisoner was servant to me almost ar in the capacity of a bailiss, to take care of son and that I keep in my own hands; during when he often bought and sold sheep, and other things that I had occasion to stock my land with, and I found in the latter part of his time he had been guilty of a great many bad things, such as selling my sheep; and he was deficient in the quantity of oats he had in h" .