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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Ashlee on Friday 23 December 16 21:14 GMT (UK)
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Please could someone help with with translating the Quarter Session Record from 1723 that I have attached that is in Latin regarding the indictment of Gervasius Beckett?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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And that Gervase Beckett, lately of Barnsley in the West Riding in the aforesaid county, wire-drawer, together with another person unknown to the aforesaid jury, on the tenth day of October in the tenth year of the reign of our Lord George by the grace of God now King of Great Britain etc., did, by force of arms etc., at Wombwell in the West Riding in the aforesaid county, break and enter into a certain close of a certain Charles Newby Esquire called Wombwell Wood or Warren, and did then and there, by walking with their feet, trample and lay waste the grass and pasture in the aforesaid close that was lately growing, and did break and cast down the fencing in the aforesaid close, to the loss of the aforesaid Charles Newby, and against the peace of the said now Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity etc.
Witnesses -- Henry Sunderland, Francis Clayton
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He could have been transported to America for that!! ;)
(Just bringing thread up for OP to register - and acknowledge.)
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He could have been transported to America for that!! ;)
But I think he got off, because the jury failed to reach a decision, according to the entry on the next page ;)
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Lucky him then! 8) :)