• Reference
    QSR1826/331
  • Title
    Examinations and depositions. Information of Matthias Baker and William Hollis junior of Tillbrook, yeoman.
  • Date free text
    1826
  • Production date
    From: 1826 To: 1826
  • Scope and Content
    Mr Hollis senior gave them a cheese which they placed in a haulm rick and left. The kept watch; on the third night they saw Richard Arnott of Tillbrook, labourer, come with a basket and bag to the rick and put his hand into the rick five or six times. Hollis rolled off the rick on to Arnott. Arnott said he had only come for straw to light the fire: Hollis allowed him to take some and go.
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