Essex document ref: Q/SR 1072

At top above details of indictments:

To be severely imprisoned and kept to hard labor (sic) in the gaol at Springfield six calendar months.

Guilty                   puts himself

Main body of text:

The jurors for our Lord the King, upon their oath present, that FREDERICK HUDGELL late of the parish of Chigwell in the County of Essex, labourer, and Joseph Hall the younger, late of the same place, labourer –

On the 13th day of March in the seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, with Force and Arms, at the parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid, a certain Building of one Alice French, widow, there situate feloniously did break and enter (the said building being then within the heretitage of the dwelling house e of the said Alice French there situate and by the said “Alice” French there occupied therewith and there being then and there no communication between the said Building and the said Dwelling house either immediate or by means of any covered and unclosed passage leading from the one to the other and that the said Frederick Hudgell and Joseph Hall the younger then and there in the said Building with Force and Arms two bushels of apples of the value of twenty shillings of the Goods and Chattels of the said Alice French in the said building then and there being found -

Larceny from the building within the cartilage then and there in the said building feloniously did steal, take and carry away, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity

Initialled and no.29

On the back:

Alice French

John Rowe

Levi Grout   (Publican)

 3 Sworn in court

 A true Bill.