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THE Information of
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a Lodger at Mrs. Nightingale
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23d Day of February 1785
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before us Two
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Justices of the Peace
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in and for the said County
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Who being upon Oath Saith that, about Three Weeks ago
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Benjamin Stokes
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a prisoner now here present and another person whom this
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Informant does not know came to him about Twelve OClock
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he being then at the house of Mrs. Nightingale abovementioned and
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asked him if he knew where they could Kill a Heifer. who
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told them he thought they might Kill it Either at Mr Kenne
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or Mr Clarks this informants mar
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whereupon he went to
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Mr Clarks and asked him if they might Kill a Heifer who
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Consenting to Heifer being Killed in his Sloughter house
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he went back and acquainted the said Stokes and the other
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person therewith when they told Informant they would
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go and fetch it, That after staying at Mrs. Nightingales
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about half an hour they went away and returned about
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Dush. with Two Bullocks, and called on him by appointment
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at Mrs. Nightingales where he was waiting for them. That
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he then went to Mr Clarks got the Key of the Slaughter
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house and with the Assistance the said Stokes and the other person drove them up Shakespears Walk
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into the Staughter
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, and the next morning Killed
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one of them. the Hide of which is now here produced.
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Lastly saith that the Ewe Bullock was the
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by the Consent of his
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Master the said
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The
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23 Feb 1785
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