QSR1816/204

Examinations & depositions: Examination of William Wrench:

1816

From: 1816 To: 1816

In the afternoon be bought a quart of nuts and afterwards, 2 pounds of gingerbread nuts. He sold as many as possible in the fair and at 12.30 that night went to the Peacock in St. Peter’s to sell the remainder, ‘but finding no one stirring there’ he thought he would go onto the Flower Pot. When he got as far as Mr Benson’s, the baker, it began to rain and he turned back and saw something shining like a smock frock under the trees, by the roadside ‘lying under the sixth tree from Mr Odell’s shop, he counted the trees before he touched what he saw, he touched it and it felt like meat, he then took it up and tied it in a cloth which he brought from home to wrap his gingerbread in ……. and carried it home to Wilshamstead and ordered his wife to salt it’.

item

Wrench, William,
Benson,
Odell

BEDFORD, WILSHAMSTEAD, theft