Reference
QSR1820/256
Title
Examinations and depositions: information of Joseph Circuitt, Woburn, yeoman; His father lost nineteen fowls from a henhouse near Sheep Lane, Potsgrove. Hearing that some had been delivered to the driver of the Union Coach who was passing along the Chester Road the preceding night he went to the George Inn at Little Brickhill and asked the landlord, William Ratliffe if any fowls had been left there. William Ratliffe produced a fowl which had been given him by his horsekeeper who said it had been given to him by the coachman. Joseph Circuitt identified the fowl as one of his father's.
Examination of Joseph Spencer, coachman of the Union coach. Two men called him to stop at the end of Sheep Lane and said they had some fowls for him. On being asked how much they were, 'the little lame man' answered a shilling each and threw them up to him. There were fifteen in all, tied by the legs and in two parcels; they were warm and appeared to have just been killed. He then drove on to the George and from there to a public house at Fenny Stratford where he left the fowls and then on to Stony Stratford where he left the coach and came back by the Union Up coach and brought back the fowls, except four, to the George. Two of the four he gave to the postillion, one of which is the one he produced. John Norket is 'the same little lame man'.
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1820
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From: 1820 To: 1820
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