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Rh Crea. One John Baxter, a Neighbour of mine,told me, he had been at Pocklington Fair in Yorkhire, and lying all Night at Brough, he happened to hear of a Man that was taken up and ent to the Houe of Correction at Beverley, for hooting a Game-Cock, who had uch a Mate and Foal as mine: Upon which Information I came to Ferraby near Beverley, and put up my Hore at Richard Graby's, who keeps a Publick Houe; and began to enquire of him about my Mare and Foal? Who told me, there was uch a like Mare and Foal in their Neighbourhood; which I thought, by the Decription he gave me, to be mine; to then I told him, I was come to enquire about uch a Mare and Foal.

Coun. Did you know the Marks of the Mare and Foal, as he decribed them to you?

Crea. Yes, I did; and told him thee Marks agreed with my Mare and Foal, before I did ee them.

Coun. Was it when your Neighbour came home, you made this Inquiry?

Crea. Yes, it was, and by this Information of his, I went to Ferraby, and gave the Landlord and People an Account of their, Marks.

Court. Decribe their Marks.

Crea. She was a Black Mare, blind of the near Eye, having a little White on the near Fore-Foot, and alo the near Hind—Foot, a little above the Hoof, and crath'd, (greaed) on both the Hind-Feet, and the near Fore-Foot, with I's, or Marks reembling that Letter, burnt on the-near Shoulder, and a Star on the Forehead. Coun.