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Gervase Spendlove
Derbyshire Lent Assises Thursday March 15 18??
Anthony Strange, aged 21, for stealing at Crich, eight pounds of bread, the property of Gervase Spendlove.
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The prosecutor, a farmer in the parish of Crich, observed the prisoner loitering about his premises after he had done his days work, on the 12th of January, he missed a loaf, and went to the prisoners fathers and charged him with stealing the loaf, the prisoner acknowledged he had taken it; and said where it was; some had been cut off; the prisoner pleaded want;
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Witness did not see any other victuals in the house.
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Guilty, but recommended to mercy, To be imprisoned one month, and kept to hard labour.
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