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1781

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Middlesex
to wit}


The Information of Dinah Holmesby< no role > Wife of John
Holmesby
< no role > of Stoke Newington in the said County
Taken on Oath for me James Townsend< no role > Esquire one
of his Majestys Justices of the Peace in and for the
said County this 4th Day of May 1781

Who Saith That about Christmas now last past
She this Informant had at Different Times eight Trusses of Hay
from Simon Woodward< no role > the Servant of Mr. James Stuart Tulk< no role > that she
paid him half a Guinea for Six of those Trusses that the other two
were to be made up Six and then she was to pay him half a Guinea
More that after she had had two More Trusses he told her she
could not have any More for his Master Could not spare it, but
that afterwards he told her he had spoke to his Master and that
She might have some More and recordingly she had Six More Trusses
which are not paid for, That in the Winter before last she had Hay
from the said Woodward at different Times for which she paid him as new
as she can recollect Six Shillings at one Time and thirteen Shillings More
at a Subsequent Time, and that she new Owes for fourteen Trusses
received from the Said Simon Woodward< no role >

Taken and Sworn before me
James Townsend< no role >

Dina Homsly< no role >




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