Reference
QSR1921/1/4/6
Title
Recognizance: George Lake & Arthur Bacon - Case against Percy Bellamy
Date free text
20th November 1920
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1921
Scope and Content
Borough of Luton to wit:
Be it remembered, that on the 20th day of November in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and twenty
George Lake of 18 Chapel Street,
And
Arthur Bacon of Police Station
In the Borough of Luton, in the county of Bedford, personally came before me, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said Borough, and severally acknowledged themselves to owe to our Sovereign Lord the King the sum of Ten Pounds each, of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of their Good and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, to the use of our said Lord the King, his Heirs and Successors, if they, the said George Lake and Arthur Bacon shall fail in the condition indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged the day and year first above mentioned, at the Court House, in the said Borough of Luton, before me,
(Signed)
Edwin Oakley
One of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the Borough of Luton.
Rear of Document:
The Condition of the within written Recognizance is such, that whereas Percy Bellamy was this day charged before the said Justice of the Peace, on a charge of False Pretences. If therefore they the said George Lake and Arthur Bacon
shall appear at the next Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at the Shire Hall, Bedford, in and for the County of Bedford, and they give such evidence as they know, upon a Bill of Indictment to be then and there preferred against the said Percy Bellamy for the offence aforesaid, as well as to the Jurors who shall there inquire of the said Offence, as also to the Jurors who shall pass upon the trial of the said Percy Bellamy if the said Bill shall be found a true Bill, then the said Recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.
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