QSR1827/292

The information of William Potts of Toddington, servant to William Hobbs regarding the theft of a duck and a drake

2 January 1827

From: 1827 To: 1827

William Potts, servant to William Hobbs of Toddington says that "about nine o'clock this morning his master William Hobbs ordered examinant to go over the way to Edward Holmes's and listen if he could hear any Ducks and that he came back and informed his master that he heard some ducks and his master immediately went and searched Holmes's premises and found the duck and drake now produced shut up in a pigstye, that his master let them out and they came home and that the duck and drake now produced are the property of the said William Hobbs."

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Hobbs, William,
Potts, William,
Holmes, Edward

TODDINGTON, butchers, theft, ducks