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134 LONG CONCEALED MURDER
possession of Thomas Baker, who was married to Mrs.
Kidderminster’s step-mother. She asked Mr. Baker whether
Mr. Kidderminster had been there lately; for her -husband
had been missing a long while, and she thought to hear of
him there. However she demanded the arrears of rent,
and expected they would pay her, if her husband were
dead. But they, as is believed, had heard of her husband’s
being missing, and therefore pretended they had purchased
the estate, and so ought to pay her nothing. But Mrs.
Kidderminster was informed by the neighbours that there
was no such thing; and was advised by them to look after
it, for it was really her right by the custom, as her free
bench, if her husband was dead.
She left Sir Christopher Guy’s family about a year and
a quarter after, and came to London to live with her sister;
and constantly enquiring after her husband, her sister one
day, in 1662 or 1663, reading the then news-pamphlet, sud-
denly cries out, u Sister, here’s news of your husband!”
upon which she read the news in these words, or to this
effect, viz. “ that the bones of an unknown person, sup-
posed to be robbed and murdered, were found buried in a
back yard in Chelmsford. Whosoever can give notice of
any person missing about that time, let them give notice
to Mr. Talcott, coroner, in Feering; or to the constable of
Chelmsford; or to Mr. Roper, bookseller, over against St.
Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-streetand upon comparing
the time of her husband’s being missing with the time in
the newspaper of the supposed murdered body’s lying
concealed, it appeared to be extremely probable: upon
which she immediately, as directed in the newspapers, went
to Mr. Roper’s, and he advised her to go to Sir Orlando
Bridgman, then lord chief justice of the common pleas,
who had been the home circuit. She went to my lord’s
secretary, Mr. Edwards, and acquainted him with her
\ business,
possession of Thomas Baker, who was married to Mrs.
Kidderminster’s step-mother. She asked Mr. Baker whether
Mr. Kidderminster had been there lately; for her -husband
had been missing a long while, and she thought to hear of
him there. However she demanded the arrears of rent,
and expected they would pay her, if her husband were
dead. But they, as is believed, had heard of her husband’s
being missing, and therefore pretended they had purchased
the estate, and so ought to pay her nothing. But Mrs.
Kidderminster was informed by the neighbours that there
was no such thing; and was advised by them to look after
it, for it was really her right by the custom, as her free
bench, if her husband was dead.
She left Sir Christopher Guy’s family about a year and
a quarter after, and came to London to live with her sister;
and constantly enquiring after her husband, her sister one
day, in 1662 or 1663, reading the then news-pamphlet, sud-
denly cries out, u Sister, here’s news of your husband!”
upon which she read the news in these words, or to this
effect, viz. “ that the bones of an unknown person, sup-
posed to be robbed and murdered, were found buried in a
back yard in Chelmsford. Whosoever can give notice of
any person missing about that time, let them give notice
to Mr. Talcott, coroner, in Feering; or to the constable of
Chelmsford; or to Mr. Roper, bookseller, over against St.
Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-streetand upon comparing
the time of her husband’s being missing with the time in
the newspaper of the supposed murdered body’s lying
concealed, it appeared to be extremely probable: upon
which she immediately, as directed in the newspapers, went
to Mr. Roper’s, and he advised her to go to Sir Orlando
Bridgman, then lord chief justice of the common pleas,
who had been the home circuit. She went to my lord’s
secretary, Mr. Edwards, and acquainted him with her
\ business,