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Continued Wednesday 1st. October 1777.
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Mr Horne and about three Pounds of Butter and three Pounds of
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Cheese and about four or five Pounds of Meat a Week. That he always
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weighted it, but kept no Account. That these things were sent by Order of
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the Steward but that Mr. Horne sometimes Ordered things himself.
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That the Meat sent was sometimes Mutton at other times Veal. That
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he sent small Beer once a Week and sometimes once a fortnight at one
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time he sent two Jacks of Beer containing about ten Gallons at other
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times one two or three Gallons a Week. That for about two Months the
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Milk was carried from the Hospital. but afterwards his fellow Servant
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carried it from the Apothecaries Shop. That about three Pints of
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Milk were sent every day. That about a Year ago some things were
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sent by Mr. Horne's Order when he come to see the Meat weighed on
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Tuesdays and Thursdays. That Mr. Horne Ordered the Steward to
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send such and such things. That he never had a half penny or any
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Gratuity from Mr. Horne for his trouble. That he never saw Mr. Horne
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pay for any thing but Apprehended he paid the Steward. That Mr.
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Horne had at one time a Leg to Pork and at another time a Spring of
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Pork . That he had Particular Orders from Mr. Horne to send
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Bread every day and general Orders from the Steward to send some things
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every day and others once a Week. That he sent Milk every Sunday.
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And it further Appears by the Evidence of
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Watkin Walters
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an
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Assistant Basketman
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-that he has been in the Hospital about one
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Year. That it is about four Months ago since he began to carry
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Provisions to Mr. Horne. That he took about a Quarter of a Loaf and
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three Pints of Milk every day and Butter about once a Week. That he
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carried Mutton or Veal once or twice a Week either on Tuesdays or
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Saturdays. That as it was not paid for he took no Notice of the Quantity
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That he believes he took about three Pounds of Butter a Week in a
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Pan and about three Pounds of Cheese. That he carried the Milk at
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eight o'Clock in the Moining and afterwards about a Quarter of a
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Loaf of Bread. That about two Months ago Mr. Horne sent for two Jacks
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of Beer that he look one, and his fellow Servant the other. That they
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contained abut four or five Gallons each. That in General he had Orders
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from the Steward to carry things to Mr. Horne. That sometimes Mr.
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Horne's Man would tell him they wanted Butter on Cheese, and when Mr.
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Horne has been at the Hospital he has Ordered Particular things to be
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