Reference
QSR1767/55
Title
Indictment of Christopher Cook of Southgate, Northamptonshire, `being a person of evil mind and Fraudulent and deceitfull disposition and not having a due regard to the Laws and Statues of this Realm..' in that on 8 March 1767 he drove through
the Puddle Hill toll gate in Houghton Regis with a wagon with wide axle trees and so paid half toll. Immediately afterwards he went 50 yards from the toll gate and narrowed the distance between one pair of wheels so the fore and hind wheels could not roll a surface of at least 16 ins on each side [as required if half toll only was to be paid] but only rolled 9 inches and continued driving along the road with the shortened axle tree `to the evil example of others'. Marked on back `Witnesses Thomas Gurney [toll gatekeeper] John Holmes' `A True Bill'
Date free text
1767
Production date
From: 1767 To: 1767
Level of description
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