| Title | Statement by Robert Shaw aged 71 (died about 1795 aged 71) (died about 1795 aged 88): that Robert Shaw's father died about 23 years ago, that he lived with Thomas Longsdon as shepherd for 45 years [erasures] 1735 altered to 1745, that he regularly gathered his employer's sheep on Great Longstone common, and that the same flocks were regularly gathered there before Robert Shaw became shepherd with Longsdon; that the deponent often assisted his father and that he understood that 10 score of sheepgates had been given to the Longsdon family by the Countess of Shrewsbury |