Richard/Robert Baker: Information of Richard Baker a soldier in Colonel Watkins's Company in the First Regiment of Guards 21 October 1698

Author: Thomas Hopkins

Source: MINT 15/17/69, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Information of Rich^d. Baker a soldjer in Col Watkin's Company in tion first Regiment of Guards Octo. 21 1698

This Informant about a month since went to the Cellar where James Pritchard lived to warn him to the guard the next day where he saw 6 or 7 rowes of farthings and a pot of metal over the fire Pritchard seemed to be surprized when the Informant came downe this Informant likewise took up some of the said farthings which he found to be very hott as if newly made he gave him 4 of them but bid him not put them off as he went home

Rob^t. Baker

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Tho Hopkins

^[3] Memorandum Hayward and Hill messengers have the Tooles

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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