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HSA1681/W/39
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Deposition:Thomas Hart, Wandon (Bucks) 11 October 1680. Found 7 of sheep he had lost and 4 skins in posession of Thos.Pitman. Thomas Pitman, Clophill, butcher. Confesses he and Jn.Gardiner stole the sheep. The Informacon of Thomas Hart of Wandon in the County of Buckingham taken upon oath before me William Daniell Esqr one of his Majesties Justices of Peace for the County of Bedford this xith day of October 1680 against Thomas Pitman late of Clophill in the said County of Bedford and now in the Goale as followeth: This Informt saith that on Wedensday night last being the 6th of this instant October he had stollen out of his fould eleven sheepe ewes & weathers, all white but one black ewe, and upon enquiry he found on the 10th instant seven of the said sheepe in the possession of Thomas Pitman of Clophill in the County of Bedford Butcher, who told this Informt he had killed the other foure of the number, & the skins were by him, and this Informt saith he was told by his neighbours that the said Pitman and one Gardiner of Broughton in the County of Bucks Butcher (of a very ill fame) were scene drinking together at the village where this Informt lives the day before his said sheepe were stollen, and this Informt saith the said seven sheepe found in the possession of the said Tho Pitman were part of the eleven sheepe this Informt lost at the time aforesaid, and were the proper goods of this Informt & further saith not: Wm Daniel The Informacon of James Ambridge of Aspley Guise in this County Husbandman taken as aforesaid This Informt saith that the said Thomas Hart lost the said eleven sheepe out of his fould at the time & place aforesaid, and the said seven sheepe founde in the possession of Tho Pitman of Clophill aforesaid were the goods of the said Tho Hart and this Informt verily believes the said Pitman stole the said Sheepe at the time & place aforesaid and further saith not. The Examinacon of Thomas Pitman of Clophill in this County Butcher taken the aforesaid xith of October 1680 before me Wm Daniel Esqr & c. This Examint saith that he and the said John Gardiner came on Wedensday the 6th day of this instant October to a village called the Hogsty houses in the parish of Wandon aforesaid, and in the night time of the said day he this Examint and the said Gardiner went to the fould of the said Informt Tho Hart, and the said John Gardiner went into the said fould and lifted out the said eleven sheepe to this Examint and then the said Gardiner helped this Examint to drive them as farre as Litlington and then this Examint drove them home to his house at Clophill, and hath killd foure of them, which said foure & the other seven that are alive wir the same sheepe he and the said John Gardiner tooke out of the fould of the said Thomas Hart at the time and place aforesaid, & further saith not: Wm Daniel
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