Reference
QSR1820/274-275
Title
Examinations and depositions. Information of William Hill, Upper Gravenhurst, William Swannell, William Giddins, William Case, William Pearce, Thomas Baily, Henry Lowings and Joshua Croxford regarding poaching at Cainhoe Park.
Date free text
1820
Production date
From: 1820 To: 1820
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Information of William Hill, Upper Gravenhurst. He was in Cainhoe Park with 19 others 'on suspicion that there would be a gang of poachers to destroy the game and resist the keepers' - at eleven o'clock ... he heard a report of 12 or 14 guns ... he went to the spot ... saw William Rowlett of Clophill and called for assistance when Joseph Sinfield, John Elmer of Maulden, William Harbrow, John Hide, John Robinson and Allan Odel came to him and he saw one of them with a gun, and he saw John Elmer strike at one of his men.Information of William Swannell. Assisted in taking William Rowlett, Joseph Sinfield, John Elmer, William Harbrow, John Hide, John Robinson and Allan Odel. He siezed a gun which was 'under some of them who were on the ground.'Information of William Giddins. he was going after some others and said to John East, one of the keeper's men, 'come on' when someone knocked him down and beat him upon his head with the butt end of a gun. The gun which was broken was siezed. The man escaped; he thinks he should know him if he saw him.Information of William Case.Information of William Pearce.Information of Thomas Baily: took a brace of pheasants from John Hide.Information of Henry Lowings: saw John Elmer with a pheasant and a bludgeon in his hand with which he was knocked down by John Elmer 'as he was falling in the scuffle.'Information of Joshua Croxford. Heard rustling in the wood and said 'Now Tom when we rushed out and siezed William Rowlett.' he heard someone else 'about ten poles off' and said to one of his assistants, Richard Simpson 'hold this man and I will run up - to which my partner said no. We went together dragging Rowlett with us and assisted William Baily in siezing William Harbrow, who was very civil and unarmed.'
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