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TitleIndictment preferred against William Thompson for lodging inmates: pleaded guilty and fined one shilling. Discharge of Edward Attlesea, committed to the House of Correction on 4 February last, being charged with running away from and leaving his two daughters chargeable to the Parish of Soham; to be contained in the House of Correction until next Friday fortnight, then publicly whipped at Soham before being discharged. Order that Richard Colins, committed to the House of Correction as a rogue and vagabond for having several gathered a large number of young people at the Chequer alehouse, Gamlingay and performed on musical instruments, practiced slight of hand and exhibited many juggling and conjuring tricks with cups and balls and cards, and having pretended to enlist several young men into His Majesty's service, and demanding, and by threats and false pretences obtaining, from the Constable of Gamlingay billets for quartering himself and 2 others he pretended he had enliste, though to himself was not a soldier and had no legal authority to enlist them; to be committed to the Castle or Common Gaol for months then to be whipped at Gamlingay before being discharged.
Date12 April 1771
CreatorNameCambridgeshire Quarter Sessions: entries in Order Book
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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