These are to Certify
that at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King holden at Lewes in and for the said County on Thursday the Seventeenth day of July in the Ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Fourth by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight Henry Hunt late of the Parish of Ore in the County aforesaid Labourer was in due form of law tried and convicted of feloniously stealing on the Eighteenth day of April in the ninth year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Twenty pieces of Oak wood of the value of Two Shillings and Sixpence and one birch pole of the value of Three Pence of the Goods and Chattels of James Eldridge against the said Majesty’s Peace And was therefore ordered to be imprisoned and kept in Solitary Confinement in the House of Correction at Lewes for the space of One Fortnight.Wm Balcombe Langridge
Clerk of the Peace for the
County of Sussex