Not the best news but for anybody else interested, a very helpful Rootschatter (aren’t you all) sent me this which definitely confirms that John Thurley (Horse Trader) from Bedford was formerly from Sandy. Confirming your thoughts!!
By the order of the courts for the relief of insolvent debtors , the petitions of Anthony Lake, late of Shillington, in the county of Bedford, Farmer, John Thurley, late of Sandy, in the county of Bedford, Horse dealer, and John Cannon, late of Yardley, in the county of Hertford, Farmer, but now prisoners, for debt, confined to in his Majesties Gaol in Hertford, will be heard before his Majesty Justices of the peace, for the said County, at the General Quarter Sessions of the peace, which will be holden, by ajournment, at Hertford, in and for the said County on Saturday, 8th day of November, at the hour of 10 oclock, in the morning, and that schedules annexed to the said petitions, containing lists of the creditors of the said prisoners, filed in the said court, No 9, Essex Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, to which the creditors of the said prisoners may refer; they herby declare, that they are ready and willing, to submit and be fully examined touching the justice of their conduct to their creditors.
Anthony Lake
John Thurley
John Cannon.
18 October 1817.
By the order of the courts for the relief of insolvent debtors , the petitions of William Smith late of Beford, Horse dealer, formerly in copartnership with John Thurley of the same place, trading under the name Smith and Thurley Horse Dealers, but now a prisoner for debt in the Kings Bench prison in the county of Surrey.
Will be heard in the Guildhall city of Westminster 22nd January at nine oclock
William Smith.
29 December 1818.
