Hen Clarke
taken the day and year above written before me
Nath Laurence
Essex sessions the examination of
Hen Clarke
taken this
17.11.1727
who saith that sometime in harvest last he took some quantity of hemping cloth out of a field belonging to
Jn Clarke
of Boxtead in the said county and carried the same to
(a name crossed out)
Earls Colne in the said county and going by the door of
Robt Osborne
Brown
of the said parish of Earls Colne the said
Osborne's
wife asked him what he had and bid him come in and she seeing the cloth stopped the same and said she thought he came not honestly by it
Hen Clarke
taken the day and year above written before me
Nath Laurence