Depositions & Examinations
QSB 1/67/66
LRO
Theft
1630
Plaintiff
Robert Woosencroft
male
Defendant
Elizabeth Barrow
female
Spouse
John Barrow
male
Billinge, Lancashire, England
Witness
William Heywood
male
Servant
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Event
Thief of bacon enquires for an alehouse
January 1630
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Components
Theft
Inferred
Trade and economic exchange
Settings
Household
Location of Event
Inferred
Alehouse
Mentioned Only
Statement
16 January 1630
Elizabeth Barrow
Examined denieth that she took, had, or left the bacon and poke... as in the informations aforesaid are alleged, and further confesseth not.
Statement
William Heywood
Informeth upon oath that a woman who now calleth herself by the name of Elizabeth Barrow brought to this informer's master's house in Salford... a poak the bacon now showed forth: which bacon Robert Woosencroft aforesaid claimeth and acknowledgeth to be the bacon taken from him as afore is said in his information, and that the said Elizabeth enquired of this informer for an alehouse and desired to leave the said poke with this informer directed her and she would return within an hour and further informeth not.