Middlesex
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The Information of John Hockett< no role > of the
Parish of Enfield in the said County of Middlesex
Labourer taken on Oath before me James
Penleaze< no role > Esquire one of His Majestys Justices of
the Peace for the said County of Middlesex
the First day of February 1783.

Who on his Oath Saith That he is a Labourer and
[..] works for Mr. William Sedcole< no role > of Enfield aforesaid
Yeoman And Saith that onMonday theSaturday the Twenty
firstEighth day of December last he was employed by Aaron Patrick< no role >
to go on Enfield Chase upon the Allotment belonging to the
Parish of Enfield that night at Eleven O'Clock to fetch home
a Load of Young Green Oaks, Accordingly this Informant
and the said Aaron Patrick< no role > and one John Pepper< no role > at
Eleven o'Clock that night went from the house of the said
Aaron Patrick< no role > known by the sign of the Kings Armsat
in Green street in the said Parish of Enfield taking with
them a [..] Cart. drawn by four horses the property of the said Aaron Patrick< no role > to a place on or
near Crews Hill to the right of Clay hill brook and [..] they the
there cut down Fifteen or Sixteen Young Oaks, is not
quite certain which but says he is sure there was fifteen
in the whole and that this Informant [..] himself
cut down Eight of the said Trees. And that the said John
Pepper< no role > cut down the rest of the said Trees. that the said
Aaron Patrick< no role > Assisted this Informant and the said John
Pepper< no role > in Cutting down the said Trees and loading the
same into the said Cart, And Saith that this Informant
and the said John Pepper< no role > cut down the said Trees by the
Order and at the desire of the said Aaron Patrick< no role > . That
the said Trees were Conveyed in the said Cart to the Farm
and Premisses belonging to the said Aaron Patrick< no role >
situate in Green Street Enfield aforesaid who there received
the same. That this Informant and the said John Pepper< no role >
were paid by the said Aaron Patrick< no role > the sum of Two shillings
each for their Trouble therein and were likewise given some Fitched,
and drink by him, And this Informant further saith that the said
oak Trees were likely to become Timber Trees and that he was
finds that the same were growing on the allotment of the Chace
& belonging to the Parish of Enfield aforesaid and were not the
property of the said Aaron Patrick< no role > but that he this Informant was Ignorant
of the same at the time he cut down the said Trees by the Order of the
said Aaron Patrick< no role > as aforesaid.

The Mark of
[mark]
John Hockett< no role >

Taken and Sworn the
day and Year abovesaid
before}

J Penleaze.