The Counſel for the King, Thomas Place, Eſq; Recorder of the City of York, and Richard Crowle, of the Inner-Temple, Eſq having open’d the Nature of the Indictment, proceeded to the Examination of Witneſſes, as follows, viz.
Thomas Creſey (the Owner of the Mare.)
Counſel. Where do you live?
Creaſey. At Heckington, in the County of Lincoln
Coun. Pray, Sir, had you a Mare and a Foal?
Crea. Yes.
Coun. Where did they go or feed?
Crea. Upon Heckington Common.
Coun. When did you firſt miſs them?
Crea. Upon a Thuſday Morning I was enquiring for them, and they could not be found.
Coun. What Day of the Month do you think it might happen?
Crea. Upon the 18th or 19th Day of Auguſt.
Coun. What Month?
Crea. The Month of Auguſt laſt.
Coun. You ſay you miſſed them on Thurſday the 18th or 19th of August laſt; pray then, Sir, when did you ſee them laſt?
Crea. The Day next before I loſt them.
Coun. When you then miſſed your Mare and Foal, what did you do in order to get Intelligence about them?
Crea. I hired Men and Horſes, and rode forty Miles round about us, to hear of them, and got them cry’d in all the Market-Towns about us.
Coun. How long was it before you knew of the Mare and Foal, or who told you of them?
