Brown, Thomas, active 1796

An accurate statement, of the trial of James Price and Thomas Brown , before the Hon. Francis Burton, Esq. at the assizes holden for the county palatine of Chester, the 6th day of April, 1796. Charged on Oath, with a strong Suspicion of having on Tuesday the 19th of January last past, between the Hours of Eight and Nine in the Afternoon of the same Day, on the King's Highway, in the Parish of Thorton-in-The-Moors, in the County of Chester, feloniously assaulted Peter Yoxall, who was carrying on Horseback, his Majesty's Mail, from Warrington in the County of Lancaster, to the City of Chester, and taking from his Person; the said Mail bag, with the letters and other articles contained therein. Entered at Stationers-Hall.