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5th December 1771 - 16th December 1772

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Image 532 of 69528th October 1772


Middlesex
to Wit }


The Information of Thomas
Clayton
< no role > Edward Castledine< no role > Willm
Stiring
< no role > John Fouby< no role > & William
Hayter
< no role > taken before us. two
of his Majestys Justices of the peace
for the said County

Who severally being upon Oath say and first
this Informant Thomas Clayton< no role > for himself saith
that on Thursday last about five o' Clock in
the Evening he went up to a Field at Pond Street
Hampstead in the County of Middlesex to see
thirty Sheep which he had there at Pasture
and found them all safe and well in the said
Field and about Eight o Clock on the Saturday
Morning following he received Information from
Mr Fielder of Hampstead who own the said
Field that the of the said thirty Sheep lay
dead in the Field upon which this Informant
went up to Hampstead and saw the said ten Sheep
had been Killed and the Cawl and Kidney
Fat in the same taken and Carried away

And this Informant William Hayter< no role > for
himself saith that on Friday Evening last
about five o Clock he was at Hampstead
and went to the abovementioned Field in which
the other Informant Thomas Clayton< no role > had
thirty Sheep at pastard & this Informant
saith that the said thirty Sheep was then
all alive and well

And this Informant William Stiring for
himself saith that he is the Servant to Mr
Sampson Ram forth Tallow Chandler in Oxford sph
that on Saturday night last about Eight o Clock
a Person now present who calls himself James
Dust brought who Masters Shop a Quantity




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