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The Information of Elizabeth Dimmock< no role > and
Mary Eakins< no role > of the Parish of Enfield in the Said County taken
this Twelfth Day of February 1798 before My one of His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in & for the Said County who upon their
respective Oaths Declarg that on the Eighteenth Day
of December 1797 William Ratfield< no role > of Enfield, Blacksmith
& requested the said Informants to dive with him at his
House in Enfield & that he woud procury Two Ducks for prior
Dinner, with provided & sent to be backed against Two o'
Clock & that they want to his House accordingly & dind wth, him
upon the said Ducks & that about five o' Clock in the afternoon
he went out about one Hour telling them he woud get two
moe Ducks for Supper & direct them to go to the House of.
Dinner his Mother (one of these Informants) and that when
he brought the Two Ducks to his own House for Supper, he took
these Two Informants by a back Way into his our House & then
Desird them to pish the Said Ducks for Supper wth, they did
& that he charged them both to lock themselves within hs House
& that if any Person was to Atempt to convey in they Stand concert
the said Ducks that they Might not be Seen & that the better
to keep things Sarah by woud wath before his own Door &
Rat it any Person should come to his House or Shop about
Business he woud whistle as a Notice to tidy the sd Ducks
Sitting them that he did not went every body to knew that he had
Ducks for that he never did want a Ducks or two for timeness
nor for them neither if they liked it & if they woud till him where he
coud find them occasionally: and they then at his Request want
with him when he carried the Two Ducks to the Sign of the
black Horse where the Landlady asked him where he bought
the Ducks so the said they were very fine bros to wch, he
made no answer, & that the Ducks being recd & roasted at Ten
o' Clock at Night