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The Examination of
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, Farmer
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and taken before me Sir
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one of his MAJESTY'S
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Justices of the Peace
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, this 29th. Day of October
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Who Confesseth and
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saith he hath known
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william Temples
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now Present upwards of One Year. That on Thursday last was
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fortnight said
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called on him and said he should
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have a Job for him to do the next Night which he wanted
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somebody to help him in and desired this Examinant to call
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on him at 5 o'clock the next Evening. That he accordingly
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called at said Temples House at Acton Common the next Evening
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at 5 o'clock when said Temples Wife informed him that her
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Husband was out upon Acton Common cutting
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which he this Examinant went to him where he found him
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endeavouring to drive several sheep to one corner of said Common
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and with a Hook in his Hand catching at them. That said Temples
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said he would Murder him if he said any thing for that he in cant
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to take one of the Sheep
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for that a Friend of his,
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who lived near acton, and his Wife who were in great Distress. That
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Hasterley had ran away and he would support the Family and that
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he intented one of the sheep for the Family. That the said
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and this Examinant dragged one of said Sheep from off said Common
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and took the same to said Temples House. That said Temples
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skinned said sheep gave him the Skin and told him that it
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would make him a Bolster if he would dry it
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George
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Mark
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Taken before me the Day
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and Year above written, }
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