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19th October 1786 - 21st December 1787

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That said Lines then appointed this Informant to wait
at a Publick House and he would make enquires about
said Beasts That he returned to this Informant in
about an House Saying that he could Clara nothing
about their and appointed this Informant to-
meet him the next Morning at the Ram in Smithfield in
order to receive such Information as he might obtain
touching the Beasts as he was particularly Acquainted
with all the Slaughtering House that Informant went to the
Ram next day but said Lines never came that between eleven
and Twelve on the Sunday Morning he went to said Mondays
House at Cow Cross where he said Monday whom he asked
whether he had seen such Beasts as he then described to him
who replied to him in the Negative-That he then asked him
if any such Beasts had been killed in his Slaughter House
on the day before to which also he replied in the Negative
That on the Monday being Informant that such Beasts had been
killed at said Mondays Slaughtering House on Saturday
he went again to said Mondays House where he saw his Wife
to whom he mentioned the Information he had received who
denied in the most positive manner that such Beasts had
been killed there and this Informant further says that from
all the Circumstances taken together he doth suspect and verily
believes that the Ox and Heifer mentioned in the Information
of William Lines< no role > and Thomas Dunkley< no role > and killed at said
Mondays Slaughtering House on Saturday last where the
Ox and Heifer so stolen from this Informant as aforesaid
and further believes and suspects that the said John Monday< no role >
feloniously received his said Beasts knowing them to have
been Stolen, and further says that two Hides now produced
he is very sure are the Hides of his said Ox and Heifer




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