Yesternight after [John] Butler and Walter Mileham alias Waters were bound over by the information of William and Samuel Lay and Robert Tayler, Mileham and Butler and Richard Edwards were at one Summers his house as also one Robert Blackamore and Matthew Life, where some discourse happened about of Mr Weddall his danger of being mobbed. Whereupon the wherrymen, viz. Mileham, Butler, Blackamore and Life and also Edwards they were very angry and some of them swore that they would give that rogue Weddall a hundred [people?] mob him and we'll give him a heave with a devil to him and that rogue Lay and that rotten rogue we'll send to the devil at 12 of clock for him, this as they went home together, give me the pitcher you old rogue. And after they were at Summers together with what was said as above those rogues Lay and Tayler they shall never go by wherries again for if they did, if ever ever get you to Yarmouth we'll drown them and some [illegible] and swore to it; the said Edwards did declare that what was informed of, viz. drawing brandy and wine and filling up with water again, the thing had been thirty years done and it was and should be done for the future in spite of Mr Weddalls.
Depositions & Examinations
NCR Case 12b, Box 1 (Parcel 3)
NRO
Undefined
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Plaintiffs
Samuel Lay
male
Norwich, Norfolk, England
William Lay
male
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Robert Taylor
male
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Defendant
John Butler
male
Wherryman
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Witnesses
William Dix
male
Constable
One of the constables of South Conisford Ward.
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Signature
Walter Mileham alias Waters
male
Wherryman
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Event
Pilfering of wine & brandy claimed as established practice
18 November 1700
night
Robert Summers, St Julian, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Components
Theft
Trade and economic exchange
Verbal abuse
Alcohol | Wine
Setting
Alehouse
Location of Event
Inferred
Event
Resentful talk at Robert Summers' house
18 November 1700
night
Robert Summers, St Julian, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Components
Verbal abuse
Gossip and slander
Setting
Alehouse
Location of Event
Inferred
Event
Prosecution for pilfering wine and brandy
18 November 1700
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Components
Prosecution and punishment
Theft
Alcohol | Wine
Statement
19 November 1700
William Dix