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<p n="257"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<lb></lb>
The Voluntary Examination and Information<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50578_n257-1">John Glover</rs>
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taken the 11th Day of Decr 1767</p>
<p n="258">This Informant being examined upon Oath Saith<lb></lb>
that last Sunday Morning about four o'Clock in<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50578_n258-1">John Curd</rs>
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proposed to this Informant and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50578_n258-2">Richard<lb></lb>
Johnson</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50578_n258-3">James Curd</rs>
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to go a fishing and they<lb></lb>
took the Boat & not and went to fish in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50578_geo87">River<lb></lb>
Lea</rs>
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near the Hill Ferry calld Glovers Ferry<lb></lb>
That as soon as they had got cross the Water<lb></lb>
Johnson (who is nick named Goose) sayd Dann<lb></lb>
Fishing I know where we can get Fowls<del>which</del>
<lb></lb>
& proposed going up to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50578_geo88">Walthamstow</rs>
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to Steal <lb></lb>
Poultry which was declined by this Dept.<lb></lb>
& his two Brothers Curd and then the said Johnson<lb></lb>
proposed taking a Sheep in a field next the<lb></lb>
Oll Mills & accordingly they drove up a flock<lb></lb>
to the Corner but they broke into the March<lb></lb>
That they then went into the next Field &<lb></lb>
saw and then Flock two on three of which<lb></lb>
were Ewes & Lambs they drove them up<lb></lb>
to the Corner of the field next the gate and<lb></lb>
Johnson took up one Sheep ty'd its less & carried<lb></lb>
it to the gate & then this Depont. took <lb></lb>
it and they all by turnd carried it<lb></lb>
home to the Ferry house and let them<lb></lb>
selves in & Goose Carried into the Cellor<lb></lb>
assisted by this Examinants' sayd brothers<lb></lb>
and there killd it And this Informant</p>
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