Reference
HSA1672/W/17
Title
Deposition:
John Langshar, Stoneley (Hunts), labourer.
The horse was his master's. He had been drinking all day, and took horse to go to see a man who owed him 5s. The examination of John Langshar of Stonely in the county of Hunts labourer taken before Robert Andley on the 28th Dec., 1671. This ex. saith that on the 26th day of this inst. December he and some other of his acquaintances had bin drinking all that lay at the inns and alehouses of Stonely & Kimbolton and about six of the clock at night he came to his Masters stable and took a reddish bayhorse with a black maine & a blacktaile & took a paire of stirrups tydd with a string and a bridle intending to ride to Baldocke in Harfordshire to one John Charles there to talk about five shillings that he the sd. John Charles had ought him the sd. ex. for a coat that he had bought of this ex. & intending to came back againe that night about two of the clock he conceiving being a servant in the house might be soe bold to take his masters horse and when he came home he could but pay him for it; and that whereas before this ex. had said upon his being apprehended that Elizabeth the wife of John Barry of Stoneley in the county of Hunts yeoman whose servant this ex. is, did send this ex. to one Jn Charles at the Starr or Cock in Baldock aforesd to be Godfather to her child lately born, then this ex. now saith that he was soe amased at his being now apprehended that he knew not well what he said. And further this ex. saith not. The mark of John Langsharre
Date free text
1672
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From: 1672 To: 1672
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No. of pieces: 1
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