Presteigne This
entry from the record of the case reads... The entry goes on
to say that George Price "then
and there feloniously
did steal take and carry away"
the poles... We are not sure
what a "Dubber" was. It could have
been a kind of wooden dish, but perhaps that doesn't seem to go with the
theft of poles from outside ? See
what happened to George Price...
Crime and punishment
The
theft of two-penny poles
The
old document shown here, from 1845,
tells of the charge against a labourer called George Price, who lived in
Old Radnor. He was accused of stealing wooden
poles which belonged to Elizabeth Davies.
Feloniously
- against the law.
Sessions
document
1845
"...in the Eighth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria at the parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid
one Oak Pole of the value of Two Pence [1p],
one other Pole of the value of Two Pence and one Oak Dubber of the value
of Two Pence of the Goods and Chattels of one Elizabeth Davies..."