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Lib Sti Alban
In Comr Hert [..] Ss


The Examination of Jonathan Wood< no role > ats Palatine
of ye Psh of Watford in ye Said Libty Waggoner

Who saith that he driver ye Waggon of the Widow of
John King< no role > of Watford afforesaid which sets up at ye
George Inn on Snow Hill that he was with his Mistress [..]
Son at the said Inn or tuesday was Seven night being
ye 15th Instant & Supped there with him & that Fran
cis Burton
< no role > & John Shrewsbury< no role > were there also with
them drinking that they all drank out of Silver
Tankard that Jonathan King< no role > his said Mistress's Son
orderd this Examinant to go & take case of the house
which this Exminant did that this Examinant asked
John Shrewsbury< no role > to lend him a hornd to help him which
he also did, that, Shrewsbury told this Examinant he
could help him to a better pot of beer than they had
within that they then [..] Shrewsbury & this Examin
want went to an Alehouse in Smithfeild, that one
William Saunders< no role > who is this Examinants fellow Servant
came thither to them & asked this Examinant to go
back to the George Inn that this Examinant & Shrews
bury came back with the said William Sound ass to the
said George Inn , that Shrewsbury was about from this
Examinant about a Minute while this Examinant
was at the Alehouse in Smithfeild het this Examinant
knows not whither he went unless [..] was to make Water
that when they came back to the George Inn this Exami
nant went to hed with the said Jonathan King< no role > het
knows whithers Shrewsbury lay at the Inn or not
that between 5 & 6 next Morning this said Jonathan
King & this Examinant took up what trading they had
at ye George & drove on the Waggon to the Maiden head
it St Gyles's where they were to take up Wheat that
while the wheat was Loading there the said Shrewsbury
came to then with one Smiths Waggon to help them Load

that in the mean time one John parsons< no role > of Hammersmith seing this Examinant told him that his
this Examinants Brother Joseph Wood< no role > was ill at Hammersmith & desired to see this Examinant
upon which this Examinant asked Jonathan King leave to go thither, that he borrowed of the said
Jonathan King< no role > one Shilling having [..] two pence half penny his [..] in his porket that as this
Examinant parted from the said Jonathan King< no role > to go to Hammersmith the said Shrewsbury followed this




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