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QSR1821/373
Title
Examinations and depositions. Deposition of Sarah Horton of Dunstable.
Date free text
1821
Production date
From: 1821 To: 1821
Scope and Content
She was returning home at about 8.40 pm. when she saw, in Church Lane, Richard Mattocks come through a hole which had been made in a barn in which were pigs belonging to Daniel Young. She said 'Dick, you have been at something wrong I will go and tell Mr Young' ; He ran off and didn't answer. As she got to her mother's door she saw another man come from under Mr Squire's pales who said 'there is a fine row in the Churchyard.' She replied 'I think there is a fine row here too.' He said he knew nothing about that and ran away towards Church Green. Her mother told her to go immediately and tell Mr Young which she did and he, his son John and her went to the barn and found a number of rabbits which had been in hutches in a corner of the sty were running about the sty and the pigs had got out of the hole and were running 'about the church way'. She identifies a man she saw at the Waggon and Horses, Dunstable as the one that came from under tha pales - 'I know him by his talk and by his dress.' It was a clear moonlight night.
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