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September 1790
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That Witness found two Men fighting Vizt. Roberts and Moore
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in the Night time that he parted them and on his return found them
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fighting again, that he took and put them both in
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New Prison
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, and in
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the Morning brought them before Mr Friquet, thinks they were sent
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down to the Prison for want of Surety - Yardley informed Witness that
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Mr Blackborow wanted to speak to him - Mr Blackborow and Mr.
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Clare were present - Mr Blackborow asked by what Authority they sent
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them to Gaol said "at his Peril he ever sent Persons to Gaol, as he had
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a place to put them in" Witness said he thought it unsafe, and that
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sending two fighting Men to the same Cage would only offer an opportunity
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for the strongest to kill the weakest; Mr Blackborow said, I will shew you
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what I will do; Mr Blackborow went to the Gaol and the Witness within
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an hour saw them out, when they came out, they hallooed him and said
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Your Master is come home, That Witness went to the Gaoler to know
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how they came out, who answered that Mr Blackborow had turned them out.
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That Witness seeing the Enmity which Mr Blackborow had
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against him declined his Duty as the general Character of Constable
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he feared would not be a defence, said he was deferred by Mr.
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Blackborow's Threats "That it was at his Peril if he sent any Persons to
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Gaol and that if he went on he would look to his Condition and
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appeared very angry, Could not till if Roberts or Moore or either of them
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were Mr Blackborow's Tenants, but believes they were Undertenants upon
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his Estate Mr Blackborow said to Witness that Turnell and Witness
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had conspired against him in his Rents, and that he would prosecute
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them for a Conspiracy, and that he would lay them on thick, Witness
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said he would give Ten Guineas to see it brought on in a Court as he
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Mr Blackborow supported these Girls.
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Wright Furnell
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Cornchandler
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, A Deputy Constable approved
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by Committee and Sworn in at Court Leet, said that the Constables have
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been threatened by Mr Blackborow that if any of his Tenants were taken up
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he would defend them. That he had taken up a reputed Thief on the
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20th. June he had Information that she was at a Door and the Tenant.
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