v
mer, and him ſafely keep, until he ſhall be diſcharged by due Courſe of Law; and hereof fail not at your Peril, Given under our Hands and Seals the third Day of October, 1738. The Gentlemen having taken ſeveral Informations from Persons of Brough and Welton, about Palmer's frequently going into Lincolnſhire, and uſually returning with Plenty of Money, and ſeveral Horſes, which he sold or exchanged in Yorkſhire, had juſt Reaſon to ſuſpect, that he was either a Highwayman or Horse-ſtealer; and being deſirous to do their Country Juſtice, and fearful to oppreſs the Innocent, the next Day went to the ſaid John Palmer, and examined him again, touching where he had lived, and to what Buſineſs he was brought up? Who then ſaid, He had about two Years before lived at Long-Sutton in Lincolnſhire, and was by Trade a Butcher: That his Father then lived at Long—Sutton, and his Siſter kept his Father's Houſe there; but he having contracted a great many Debts; for Sheep that proved rotten, ſo that he was not able to pay for them, he therefore was obliged to abſcond, and come and live in Yorkſhire. The Juſtices, upon this Confeſſion, thought it the propereſt Way to ſend a Meſſenger into Lincolnſhire, to enquire into the Truth of this Matter; and Mr. Robert Appleton, Clerk of the Peace for the ſaid Riding, then wrote a Letter to Long-Sutton, signifying the whole Affair; which Letter was ſent by a ſpecial Meſſenger, and given to one Mr. Delamere, a juſtice of the Peace, who lived there;
