John Sutcliffe: The Examination of John Sutcliffe in Woods Close in Middlesex 15 January 1700 Isaac Newton c. 229 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 15 Jan 1700, c. 229 words. MINT 15/17/303, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 15/17/303 John SutcliffeHog keeperJohn CrosleyHostler 15 Jan 1700 England English Latin Unknown Hand MintClippers, Coiners and Embezzlers Transcribed by Will Scott Catalogued by Will Scott
MiddxMiddlesex Ss.

The Examinaconation of IJohn SutliffSutcliffe Hogs keeper in Woods Close in MiddxMiddlesex take this 15th. day of Ianury 1700.

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This ExaiantExaminant saith ytthat abtabout 3. or 4. years agoe Ion. Crosley an Hostler in yethe George Inn in Southwark, told him this Examinant ytthat there lay a bag ofLumbers in yethe manger and desired him to take it, & Carry it to an old house in Woods close in Clerkenwell parish, abtabout 6. or 8. doors from this ExaiantsExaminants house & he should have 12 of it, and yethe ExaiantExaminant took it out of yethe manger, & carried it home, & from home to yethe sdsaid old hose, and threw it down into the Cellar and there left it, and after wards returning to the Cellar found it gone.

And yethe deponent saith further ytthat yethe bag aforesd.said was about as big as a 40li bag of money, & ytthat by feeling yethe bagg he ꝑperceived there were lumps in it, some round like money, & some long like boxes, and the ExaiantExaminant suspected, they were either silver or some such sort of stuff, And yethe ExaiantExaminant saith further ytthat afterwards asking yethe said IJohn Crosley, for 12 of what was in the said bag, the said Crosley answered that he had lost it in a garden. IJohn Sutcliffe Capt 15. Ianr. coram me Is Newton