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v, and him afely keep, until he hall be dicharged by due Coure 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 everal Informations from Persons of Brough and Welton, about Palmer's frequently going into Lincolnhire, and uually returning with Plenty of Money, and everal Hores, which he sold or exchanged in Yorkhire, had jut Reaon to upect, that he was either a Highwayman or Horse-tealer; and being deirous to do their Country Jutice, and fearful to oppres the Innocent, the next Day went to the aid John Palmer, and examined him again, touching where he had lived, and to what Buines he was brought up? Who then aid, He had about two Years before lived at Long-Sutton in Lincolnhire, and was by Trade a Butcher: That his Father then lived at Long—Sutton, and his Siter kept his Father's Houe there; but he having contracted a great many Debts; for Sheep that proved rotten, o that he was not able to pay for them, he therefore was obliged to abcond, and come and live in Yorkhire. The Jutices, upon this Confeion, thought it the properet Way to end a Meenger into Lincolnhire, to enquire into the Truth of this Matter; and Mr. Robert Appleton, Clerk of the Peace for the aid Riding, then wrote a Letter to Long-Sutton, signifying the whole Affair; which Letter was ent by a pecial Meenger, and given to one Mr. Delamere, a jutice of the Peace, who lived there; and