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RefNoKHCP/1/31/87
AltRefNoHCP/1/31/87
TitleDeposition: Narcissus Hewson Dyke and John Stevens Accused by Bird John Rist, butcher, Farcet Fen, of robbing him of £2. 15. 6. in the Stevens' dancing booth at Bridge Fair on the second night of the fair. (October 3rd) Witness Thomas Woollerson of Farcet. It was a masked ball (masquerade dresses hired at 7/- for two) and Bird seems to have been drunk and quarrelsome. Witness for the prisoners - James Theobald, Colchester St. Whitechapel, waiter to Stevens Senior (and formerly valet to the Earl of Westmoreland, Ambassador at Berlin); William Hubbard, London, Cook and Cutter; Edward Gibbs, Peterborough, tailor, John Cox the younger, Peterborough, farmer, Frederic Dodson, Peterborough, cabinet maker. (Mention of Algar's booth; See infra).
Date1849
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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