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Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662. 89 The sd Deare was Demanded whether he cut the cares & face of & he Liber B sd no but he Thought The Dogges had eaten them of/ Ann Murell The Depossetion of John salter saith That somtime in the mounth Desembr yor Deponant was at kent house with mr Bradnox: And The sd mr Bradnox Did demand of gregories wife what Cattell John Deare had kild: And she replied A bull & A Cow There weare The hieds: soe we went And lookt vpon Them The Cow hied had John Deares pper Marke with The fase & hornes to The hied The bull hied The hornes cares & fase weare Cutt away: And when we did se John we Demanded of him where The cares & face of That bull as That he had kild: And he are They not on the hied And we no: Then he sd the dogges had eat Them Jo Salters signe Henery Clay sworne saith That About the 20th of the Mounth Desembr yor Deponant was with Mt Bradnox at kent house which when we ware Corning whom About The place That Peopell vsse to stand for Deare when any Driues The neckes And mr Bradnox Askt John salter what The Dogges had gott: and salter sd That he Thought it was A peece of Deares Bulls hied: And yor Deponant went And lookt vpon it And There he saw A fase of a Beast which had not ben long kild & Cut of And he That had Cutt it of Cut the hied Close to The homes vnder neath/ hen Clays signe John Ereckson sworne sayeth That About The 21th of The Mounth Desemb being sunday: John Deare Came vnto yor Deponants house in The night without his Coot And yor Deponant Askt him what was The matter suer you haue kild somthing or other And he partly Denied it at first but yot Deponant did Aske him Agayne: And Then he sd he had kild A great lusty barrow but he Did not know whose it was: And yor Deponant Askt him what he would doe with it: And Deare Answerd That he Did not know whether he had best Carry to greens or to yot Deponants house: And yot Deponant sd That the would hilpe him to Carry it soc we both brought him Vnto yot Deponants house: for he That he was A frayed to Carry him to greens for feare The sheriffe should seaze on him: soc After the sd hogg was Drest he gaue yor Deponant the head: And The hogg was Markt with A Croop on both cares & A hooll in etch with A peece Cut out vnder The left care: And when yot Deponant Askt him whose hogg it was he That he had most Right vnto him And farther saith Not John Ereckson |
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