Reference
QSR1821/321
Title
Examination of John Lewin of Swineshead.
Date free text
1821
Production date
From: 1821 To: 1821
Scope and Content
A pig belonging to his father Thomas Lewin was missing from his farm in Tillbrook. He traced 'the steps of two men and the track of the pig ... for nearly a mile towards Pertenhall.' He went with a search warrant and found the pig with two others in a sty adjoining the premises of Benjamin Lee of Colmworth '(which stye was upon the ground of Mrs Yorke)' Lee took the two pigs and put them into his own sty, but the other followed, forcing it's way through a hole in the sty of Lee's which had been stuffed up with straw. The sty on Mrs Yorke's premises was open to Lee's premises, 'the fence between them being mostly down, and in such a state that pigs or sheep may pass backward and forwards without interruption.' He also further said that the track of the two men and pig lead up to Mr Nathaniel Norman's barn and farmyard in Tillbrook and from that spot there were traces of two pigs.
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