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Depositions & Examinations
QSB 1/55/46
LRO
Undefined
1629
Plaintiff
[Not specified]
[Not specified]
Defendant
Robert Hitchinson
male
Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper
Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Witness
Samuel Sutcliffe
male
Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Event
An alehousekeeper with a handgun
January 1629
Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Component
Fights and violence
Statement
Samuel Sutcliffe
Who informeth on oath that in January last, this informer did see one Robert Hitchinson alehousekeeper in Rochdale carry a handgun and also saith that he heard the said Hitchinson then confess that the same day he had killed with shooting in that time three crows at one shoot and further this [informant] cannot say.