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Image 377 of 68114th September 1786


Middlesex
to Wit.}


The Information of John Mincher< no role > [..] dealer in Horses of
Bedford Street in Liquor Pond street in the parish of St.
Andrews Houlborn taken upon Oath before me Wm. Blackborow< no role >
Esqr one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said County
of Middlesex this 14th. day of September 1786

This Informant upon his Oath saith that he was on the 12 day of this Instant
September at Beggar Bush Fair in the County of Middlesex on his Business
as a dealer in Horses and that the Prisoner Robt. Beale< no role > offered the Golding
(now Sworn to by Hemming Laver< no role > ) to Sell unto John King< no role > for the sum of ten
Pounds Upon hearing that price askd for the Gelding he went into the Crown
Ale House at Beggar Bush and askd. who was Selling that Golding and was
Inform'd the prisonr Robt. Beale and he asked Robt. Beale how he got it
and he said he bought it at Harley Bush Fair for Eleven Pounds and
this Informant told him he thought he had stole it. John King< no role > said what
was that to him how he got it for he had bought it. this Informant then
sent for a Constable and gave Charge of the said Robt. Beale< no role > and Attended
him to Wm. Blackborow< no role > house in Clerkenwell Close

Sworn before me the day and Year
first above Written
W Blackborow}

John Minstrer< no role >

Middlesex
to Wit.}


Hemming Laver< no role > Farmer at Stamford le hope in the County
of Essex on his Oath saith that he hath seen the Gelding
which Robt. Beale Offered to Sell at Beggar Bush Fair
and that It is his property and that the said Gelding was
Stolen out of a Field near his house in the Night of Sunday
the 10th. day of September Instant and that he doth Suspect
that the prisoner Robt. Beale< no role > did Steale the said Gelding

Sworn before me this 14th
day of September 1786
W Blackborow

Hemmings Laver< no role >




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