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Michaelmas Sessions. Evidence: Information and complaint of William Taylor, one the field drivers, against John Read, cooper, regarding an impounded mare.

19 July 1820

From: 1820 To: 1820

- William Taylor on Saturday evening last impounded a mare, blind of the near eye and with a sore place on its back, which had been straying upon St Peter's Green. The mare belonged to John Read and Taylor went and told him it was in the pound. The next morning he found the pound gate broken and the lock bent and the mare gone. The same mare was impounded again and John Read paid one shilling to have her released. - Mary Taylor, daughter of William Taylor, said that about 11 o'clock Sunday evening last a person had called at her father's house in Harpurs Row. As they had all gone to bed she went to the window. The person said he wanted his mare out of the pound, she asked him to come back in the morning. He said that if her father did not get up he would go and take the mare. He then went away. - John Read having heard the information said he had nothing to say knowing nothing about it.

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Taylor, William,
Read, John,
Taylor, Mary

field driver, cooper, pounds, St.Peter Bedford, Bedford Harpur's Row