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LONG CONCEALED MURDER.
estates in Cambridgeshire, till thinking it prudent to con-
vert his property into money, and endeavour to settle upon,
or sell his estate which he still claimed in Herefordshire,
after sending his wife to London, who was then bis with
child, and telling her he would return in about ten days,
he departed from Cambridgeshire through Essex, with a
number of writings, taking with him about five or six
hundred pounds in gold, most of which he had obtained
in exchange for silver.
Going a bye-road for safety, Mr. Kidderminster took a
guide with him, but on reaching Chelmsford at night he
was discharged. Mr. Kidderminster then put up at the
White Horse Inn, where it appears he had lain at other
times, and was very well acquainted ; but there he was
murdered on the same night, and, as before said, in April
1654, as will further appear from the following relation :
He not coming to London according to appointment,
about three weeks after Mr. Bainbridge, the parson of
Wilburton that married them, came up to Mrs. Kidder-
minster, and asked her for her husband, who replied, “ I
hoped you had brought me news of him ; what’s the reason
of it ?’’ “ I know not,” says he, “ but he has made off al],
and gone from thencewhich mightily surprised her, in-
somuch that it threw her into a fit of sickness which had
almost cost her her life : but desirous to know the reason of
it, she desired Mr. Maidstone, a gentleman thathad business
there, and was going thither, to send her a particular ac-
count, who confirmed the parson’s relation. The last place
she heard of him was Cambridge. Then a report was
spread that he was gone to Amsterdam, where she sends to
enquire for him, but was assured he was not there. After
some time she heard he was at Cork in Ireland, and thither
she sent, and made a most diligent and exact search for him,
both in Cork and Munster by the interest of a parson there,
but
LONG CONCEALED MURDER.
estates in Cambridgeshire, till thinking it prudent to con-
vert his property into money, and endeavour to settle upon,
or sell his estate which he still claimed in Herefordshire,
after sending his wife to London, who was then bis with
child, and telling her he would return in about ten days,
he departed from Cambridgeshire through Essex, with a
number of writings, taking with him about five or six
hundred pounds in gold, most of which he had obtained
in exchange for silver.
Going a bye-road for safety, Mr. Kidderminster took a
guide with him, but on reaching Chelmsford at night he
was discharged. Mr. Kidderminster then put up at the
White Horse Inn, where it appears he had lain at other
times, and was very well acquainted ; but there he was
murdered on the same night, and, as before said, in April
1654, as will further appear from the following relation :
He not coming to London according to appointment,
about three weeks after Mr. Bainbridge, the parson of
Wilburton that married them, came up to Mrs. Kidder-
minster, and asked her for her husband, who replied, “ I
hoped you had brought me news of him ; what’s the reason
of it ?’’ “ I know not,” says he, “ but he has made off al],
and gone from thencewhich mightily surprised her, in-
somuch that it threw her into a fit of sickness which had
almost cost her her life : but desirous to know the reason of
it, she desired Mr. Maidstone, a gentleman thathad business
there, and was going thither, to send her a particular ac-
count, who confirmed the parson’s relation. The last place
she heard of him was Cambridge. Then a report was
spread that he was gone to Amsterdam, where she sends to
enquire for him, but was assured he was not there. After
some time she heard he was at Cork in Ireland, and thither
she sent, and made a most diligent and exact search for him,
both in Cork and Munster by the interest of a parson there,
but