examination of
Sam Holden
who saith that the night on which the informant chargeth him with felony he came very late from Earls Colne where he had been at his father's house and he rose not from bed till after sun up and that he did not take away any of the goods charged on him and saith that he hath nine skeins of yarn of his mother to make him stockings which yarn he left with one
Barnes
of Halstead and from thence carried the same to one
Newton's
house that he had about 5lb cheese which he bought of the said
Evered
and that he bought a leg of mutton and sent it to the informants house and carried it away as his own
Sam Holden
Jn Symonds