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The King
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On a Conviction under the Statute 10th Geo. 3d C. 18th. for
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stealing a Dog on the Prosecution of
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18th October 1773
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To Sir
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John Hawkins
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Knight
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Saunders Walch
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Chairman
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and the rest of
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His Majesty's
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now holding the General
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Quarter Session of the Peace at
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The Humble Petition & Appeal of the Defended
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Richard Noyes
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Sheweth
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That Your
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Appellant in the month of August last, and for some
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considerable time before, was
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to Beaumont
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who then
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and for several Months before, had Lodgings at the Dwelling house of
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(the Prosecutor) at
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, where Your Appellant used
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frequently to Report with his sd Master
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That the sd Prosecutor is a
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Farmer
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, and Reeps a great Number of Dogs
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Thatin the latter End of the sd Month of August last,
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Your Appellant was at his sd Master's Lodgings at the Prosecutor's sd House;
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& in returning to
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in the Evening on Horseback, a Young Puppy, called a
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Lurcher (which was familiarized to your Appellant by having resided so many
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Months at the sd prosecutor's sd House) followed your Appellant which he did not
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Perceive free he had Passed
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; when he Endeavoured to drive the Dog
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back, by throwing Stones at him, and chlding him; however the Dog lurking
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behind & being an willing to go home,came Freeking after Your Appellant
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& when Your Appellant had reached
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Twickenham
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; the Dog came up to him
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again of his own Accord wch your Appellant observing, & their king that the
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Dog might be lost, if he was attempt to drive him back any more he then
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suffered the Dog to follow him to Town, and tied him up in his Stables in
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till Your appellant should return
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to the prosecutors said House; which he expected to do, on the then following
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Monday, and so your appellant told several Coachmen belonging to the sd Yard
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or News & always declared to them that the sd Dog was not your Appellants,
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but the Prosecutor's & that he took care of the Dog in order to Deliver him
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safe to the Prosecutor as afsd
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That in the Forenoon of the Day, in wch your appellant expected
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to go to the Prosecutor's sd House; he the Prosecutor, & one
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James Howard
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came
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to Your appellants Stables, & found the Dog tied up and there upon without
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