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The Information of
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taken before
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Who being on Oath say, and first the said
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says that he keeps Sleep for
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John Messenger
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of
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Farmer in a Field at
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That
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on Friday Night he lift about sixty Sheep safe in said Field
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and the next morning missed one by finding the Skin in
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a Pond near the Field in which said Sheep were kept
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That on searching said Skin he found the Gutts Liver
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Lights & Head therein, but not the Heart on FatThat
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on comparing the Head and Nick of said Sheep with
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the Mutton shewn to him by the said
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, he doth
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verily
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believe it to be the Sheep which was so stolen
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as aforesaidAnd the said
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says that he
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Collects
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Tolls at
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That on Saturday morning last
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about 2 oClock the Bag now produced was put into the Toll
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House, but by whom he cannot tell, That about seven
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oClock the same morning a person now present who calls
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himself
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William Chadborne
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came to him and asked for
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said Bag saying that he had lift it in the Toll House
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That he asked said Chadborne what he had got in said
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Bag when he Replied "That what was there, was his own
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Property, and that this Informant had nothing to do with
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it" That he this Informant then searched said Bag
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in which he found two Breasts a Neck and Quantity
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of Mutton Fat on which he secured himAnd the
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said
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William Bowyer
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says that he searched the said
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William Chad borne at the
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Brown Bear
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in
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Covent Garden
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on Saturday morning last and found in his
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Pocket the Heart and Tail of a Sheep and a Knife
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