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COURT CASE NOTES - Loose Sheet

This is a loose page from one of a series of notebooks kept by Baldwin Fulford JP, during sessions at an unnamed court. The page is undated, but the notebooks have dates ranging from 1848 to 1859. The charges are of theft, committed at locations across Devon.
The notes were evidently written at high speed. Names given may not be wholly reliable, either in the original or in this transcription.
Locations and surnames include the following:
JEFFREY
Halberton: HURFORD, MORGAN
Ugborough: BLATCHFORD, PEARCE
Poughill: DUNN, MOGGRIDGE
Crediton: WAY, DYER, GALE

Transcribed by Fay Sampson Priestley, April 2003

Mary Jeffrey: 5½ Saturday went for wood. There was ashen faggot  9 Monday wood taken  all big sticks gone from faggott.

     Not Guilty

Richard Hurford  Halberton  tools  Property of James Morgan  24 March Saturday

     10 years

John Blatchford  Not guilty
Harriett Blatchford  12 March  cloaths  Property of John Pearce Sawyer of Ugborough

     4 months

Elizabeth Dunn  Pork &c  at Poughill  30 March. Property of John Moggridge  She servant

     Guilty 6 months
Guilty Fanny Way  stealing Bacon Bread  at Crediton  29 March
Not Guilty Susan Dyer  Property of Frederick Henry Gale
     10 weeks.

Last updated: 14 Apr 2008 - Brian Randell


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