The Information of John Read< no role > Butcher of
Uxbridge in the County of Middlesex taken
on Oath before Abel Aldridge< no role > & Thomas
Bishop< no role > Esqr . two of his Majestys Justices
of the peace , this tenth day of Febry. 1774

Who saith that on the 31st. of January
last, he lost forer fatt live Sheep, that
on Saturday the 5th. of February instant he
saw in the BarnShopof James Parrott< no role > of Hillington
a Sheep Skin with the wool tore from the
rump were his mark are usual made, and [..]
Some Riddle between the Shoulders corisponding
with the riddle between the Shoulders of these
sheep he Cost That he suspected the said James
Parrott from thence, and many other circum-
stances. That on questioning the said James
Parrott he gave this deponent so very an
impropable and Contradictory accounts, of
the Price and method of Purchasing of the
said Sheep, and several others, as that he
bought at Southal Market that Sheep with six
others that he paid three & thirty Shillings
each and had kept them in a field late
in his possession near Mr Tomkyns at
Hillington.

Taken on Oath this
Oath day of February 1774
before us

Thos.. Bishop
A Aldridge

John Read