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16 July 1795: Bond by Matthew Stokoe [signs] of Macclesfield, county Chester, baker and William Smallwood [signs] of Macclesfield dyer, to Peter Wright gentleman clerk of the court of the manor and forest of Macclesfield, in £8: for Josiah Greaves, late of Macclesfield but now a private in the Cheshire Militia to appear at the next court to prosecute John Cottrell of Macclesfield bricklayer, for taking a screen and cushion, a pair of copper scales, a grate, a painted cupboard, three tea pots, a cannister, a bason, six rush bottom’d chairs, five boxes, a mahogany stand, three mahogany drawers, a pair of bed stocks, an oak cupboard, a round stool, a chaff bed, a feather bed, bolster and pillow, a pair of sheets, two blankets and a rug (worth £4). Witness: David Brown [signs]
