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HSA1673/S/29
Title
Deposition:Richard Harris, Tempsford, butcher. 26 July 1673.
--- Returned to his shop after 3 days' absence, found
window broken open, £3 6s. 4d., 2 bands, a flaxen shirt, 1 pr trousers,
1 pr stockings, gone. Suspects Th. Eastwell, who confesses he went to
the shop to borrow weights, and 'is well known in the said town to be a
pilfering theevish fellowife' The information of Richard Harris of
Temsford in the said county butcher taken upon oath before me Gaius
Squier one of his Maiesties Justices of peace in the same county the 26
day of July 1673. This informant saith that on Monday last he went from
home and returned on Thursday morning after and havving left the key of
his shop at one Studds his house an Innkeeper in the same town of
Temsford (where he usually left it when he went abroad) he went to
fetch it, and some there told him, that the window where he lodged
being a room within his shop was broken open, which he found to be
true, and that he had taken out of his chest three pounds six shillings
and foure pence in money two bands and a flaxen shirt, alsoe a paire of
trowsers and a pair of stockings which he left upon his bed, And he
saith that he hath in suspicion of stealing the said money and goods
one Thomas Eastwell of the same town, for this informant saith that the
said Eastwell confessed unto him that he went to Studds his house on
Tuesday last when this informt was absent and tooke the key of his shop
which usually hangs up in a common place in the house, and went thither
to looke for a weight to weigh cheeses saying that one Parkin of the
same town sent him which the said Parkin denied to this informant
saying he was a lying rogue, And this informant saith that Eastwell is
well known in the said town to be a pilfering and theevish fellow, and
hath been heretofore taken (as he hath heard) stealing of grain from
one Lettice of the same town. Gaius Squier
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1673
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