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QSR1840/1/5/7/d
Title
Deposition of Charles Tomson of Sundon, farmer - James Brown, charged with stealing 2 sheep from Mary Fensom
Date free text
1 November 1839
Production date
From: 1839 To: 1840
Scope and Content
About 12pm on 30 October he saw 2 ewe sheep in a meadow at Sundon occupied by John Fenn. Fenn told him they belonged to Brown. About 3pm Thomas Gortelow came to his house with Brown - they all went to Upper Sundon together and the sheep were in the stable. He went for the key, and gave the sheep and Brown into the charge of James Jackson the constable. Brown claimed to have bought the sheep from a drover on the Hockliffe Road.
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