Some Selected Reports from the Marlborough Journal
Saturday May 4, 1771
Marlborough, May 4.
A few days ago died, Mr Thomas Smith, grocer, in Bishopsgate Without, London, late an inhabitant of this town.
A few days ago was apprehended, in consequence of an advertisement in this paper, and committed to Fisherton gaol, by the Rev.Mr.John Rolt, on[e] Perrot, a shepherd, of Sandy-lane, in the parish of Bromham, in this county, for stealing near eighty[?] sheep out of the folds of Messrs. Ballard and Fowler, of Imber.