Papers Relating To The Prosecution Of George Chinn Of Horningsham For Stealing Pit Timber Worth £1 15s From Horningsham Common plantation

A list of “Miscellaneous documents from Wiltshire Estates in Longleat Records” http://www.gomezsmart.myzen.co.uk/land/longleat/misc02w.htm includes: 

Horningsham. 

20 October 1871 – 7 November 1872.

Horningsham Common Plantation.

Papers relating to the prosecution of George Chinn of Horningsham for stealing pit timber worth £1 15s from Horningsham Common plantation.

(i) Copy depositions taken on 7 November 1872 from George Berry, woodward to the 4th Marquess; Joseph Barber, labourer to John Garrett; Mary Ann Fussell, keeper of the 4th Marquess’s weighbridge at Frome Woodlands; Henry Stubbs, clerk at Middle Pit at Radstock; Isaac Look, clerk at Ludlow’s Pit at Radstock; and Henry Parr Jones, steward to the 4th Marquess. With documents produced in evidence:

(ii) W. Thorne’s account book of loads of timber taken from the plantation and weighed, 27 October – 20 December 1871 (Marked A);

(iii) Receipt book of loads weighed at the weighbridge at Woodlands, 1 November 1871 – 9 March 1872 (Marked B);

(iv) Lord Bath’s account book of loads weighed at the weighbridge at Woodlands, 10 November – 18 December 1871.

(v-viii) draft notes of loads weighed.

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