Folio(s) 152-157. Letter from the Earl of Sandwich, New Burlington Street, [Westminster],...

Folio(s) 152-157. Letter from the Earl of Sandwich, New Burlington Street, [Westminster], enclosing papers from the magistrates of Huntingdonshire about an attack on a horse. Sandwich asks if a reward can be offered by government for the arrest of the perpetrator.

Enclosed is the statement of Bartholomew Bull, farrier of Huntingdon, sworn 4 February 1804 before Henry P Standly, John Heathcote, John Richards, Owsley Rowley, William Panchen, William Ellis and Lawrence Reynolds, giving details of a deliberate injury to a horse belonging to John Holmes, innkeeper of the Wheatsheaf Inn, Alconbury cum Weston, which had required the animal's destruction.

Also enclosed is Holmes's statement sworn before the same magistrates on 4 February 1804 stating that he was Assessor under the Property Act for Alconbury Weston and that, after a meeting of occupiers regarding a Valuation required by the Commissioners, several people had appeared dissatisfied and that during the following night one of his horses had been injured and three nights later his gates were damaged.