The Information of Samuel Parrott< no role >
take on Oath before Abel Aldridge< no role >
and Thomas Bishop< no role > Esqr . two of
his Majestys Justices of the Peace
this tenth day of February 1774

Who saith that about two or three
month since his father James Parrott< no role > took him
with him, to the grounds of Mr Willington
near long lane , & that he there took
two Sheep, and as he thought it
was a very bad thing, he this deponent
cried very much, that about a
fortnight since his father look him
again into a field belonging to Mr.
Tomkins and there they found four
Sheep which they drove from that
Field, through a gate into another and
from thence into a field belonging to
this deponants Father, then into the
Lane & from thence into an out building
belonging to his Father, that they
were kept privately & fed with Clever
that his father tore of the Wool from
the rump were the Butchcer mark had
been, that he thought it was very wrong
but his father bid him tell it be no
one person.

Sworn before us
Thos. Bishop
A Aldridge

Samuel Parrott