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16 July 35 George III 1795: Bond by John Cottrell [signs] of Macclesfield, county Chester, bricklayer, John Burgess [signs] of Macclesfield farmer and William Wright [signs] of Sutton, county Chester, farmer, to Peter Wright gentleman clerk of the court of the manor and forest of Macclesfield, in £20: for Cottrell to appear at the next court to prosecute Josiah Whitaker for taking one grate, one crow, one guard, one fender, a pair of tongs and poker, a box iron and heaters, a clock, a corner cupboard, a dresser and shelves, three stools, a wood screen, a whitewood table, five rush bottomed chairs, an iron stand, a pair of bellows, a copper tea kettle, three pewter quart measures, three pewter pint measures, two pewter gill measures, two pewter liquor measures, an iron shovel, seventeen plates, two dishes, five jugs, four glasses, two brass candlesticks, five iron candlesticks, one tin candlestick, a brass ladle, two tun dishes, three cups and three saucers, an ink stand, an oak table, two stools, four chairs, a looking glass, a grate, a tin candlestick, a coffer, a dresser and shelves, a tin scale, a salt box, a bird cage, a lantern, a handboard, a large mug, a plate and bason, two iron pots, a pewter dish, a delph dish, four tubs, a spinning wheel, a frying pan, a stone bottle, a pitch fork, a tin warming can, three barrels of ale, one barrel of rum, one barrel of gin, two empty barrels, for brass cocks, a piggin, two dishes, a large mug, a pewter pint, a chest of drawers, a pair of whitewood bedsteads, a chaff bed, two feather pillows, one feather bolster, two bed covers, two blankets, one sheet, a cradle, a grate, two chairs, a box, a pair of bedsteads, a chaff bed and bolster, two sheets, one blanket, a bed cover and all other goods and chattels upon the premises (worth £10). Witness: David Brown [signs]
