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HSA1673/S/30
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Deposition:Thomas Eastwell, Tempsford, labourer.
--- Took the key of Richard Harris' shop from Th. Studds' house and
went to fetch weights and scales to weigh cheeses, but did not find
any. The window was not then broken open. The examination of Thomas
Eastwell of Temsford labourer taken before Gaius Squier one of his
Maiesties Justices of peace in the said county the 26th day of July
1673 This examinant saith that he knows very well where the key of
Richard Harris shop usually hangs in Thomas Studds his house and hath
been often imployed by Harris himself to fetch it, And he saith on
Wednesday last in the absence of the said Richard Harris he tooke the
key at Studds his house and went alone to the said shop to fetch
weights and scales to weigh some cheeses, and finding them not there he
went to Parkin the smith for them, And he saith he was not in Harris
his shop on Tuesday last, neither did he see the chamber window broken
on Wednesday when he went for the weights, but on the same day when
Thomas Studds called him to goe along with him to goe to the shop they
saw the window broken open, And this examinant then opening the shop
took up an empty purse there, the said Studds being present at the same
time, and further saith not. Gaius Squier
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1673
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