Reference
QSR1818/345
Title
Information of Thomas Pedder taken at Hitchin.
Date free text
25 November 1818
Production date
From: 1818 To: 1818
Scope and Content
'I am a labourer in the employ of Mr Christopher Pryor of Stopsley in the parish of Luton Beds James Walduck is also in his employ - Our employment is to thrash wheat and to draw straw for platting and to sell it for our master to women and others applying. On Thursday last James Walduck weighed some of Mr Pryor's straw which he sold and for which he received the money - but he did not pay Mr Pryor so much by three shillings as he received and he and I divided it between us each having eighteenpence - We had very often before kept back money received for straw & divided it between us.'
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