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HSA1675/S?61
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Deposition: John Whitbread, Elstow, husbandman. 3 May 1675.
Richard Impey, Marsden, gentleman left £77.5s. and ---- Whittingstall, Hitchin, horse-courser, left £40, with J.wife until they should need their money in the fair. It was locked in a chest in an inner room in charge of John Howlett, 'a hyred tender for the fair time'. Later J.wife found lock picked and money gone. Suspects John Howlett for taking or causing it to be taken. The Informacon of John Whitbread of Elstow in the sd county husbandman taken upon oath the third day of May 1675 before Sr Georgs Blundell knight and William Spencer Esqr two of his Maties Justices of the peace for the said county This Informant sayth that upon the third of May 1675 Richard Impey of Marston gent did about nyne of the clock in the morninge of the same day deliver (as the sd Impey sayth) the sum of threescore and seaventeene pounds & five shillings untp the aforesd John Whitebread by him to be kept & layd up till he should make use of it in the faire And the sayd Informant further sayth that ..... Whittingstall of Hitchen horsecourser about seaven of the clock in the morninge of the aforesd day did (as the sd Whittingstall sayth) deliver unto the aforesd Informant the sum of forty pounds All which sums the sd Informant locked into a chest in one of his inward roomes above staires with theire pilches After which the care & charge of that roome for lookinge after faire guests was in the trust of one John Hewlett of Kempston laborer a hyred tender for the faire tyme, And this Informant further sayth that the aforesd Impey within half an houre of thereabouts after the delivery of the sd bagg came to the aforesd Informant to demaund his bagg agayne upon which the sd Informant goeinge to his chest for it found the lock of the sd chest pickt, & nothing but the pilches left the baggs beinge taken away, upon which the sd Informant makeinge inquiry of his tender of the roome concerninge what company had byn in the sd roome receaved from the aforesd tender soe imperfect an account that he had cause to suspect the aforesd tender for eyther himselfe takeinge or causinge the aforesd baggs to be taken out of the sd chest And further this Informant sayth not
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