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OF THOMAS KIDDERMINSTER, CENT. 145
he left you a groatand put her hand in her purse, and
gave it her. ‘ Then (said the maid) I will go and make
clean the chamber? ‘ No, (said the mistress) my daughters
and I have set that to rights already; do you what you are
about, and then gp to your flax wheel(the maid being
used to spin flax when she had nothing else to do.) The
phamber door was kept locked for eight or nine weeks after-
wards, and no person admitted to go into it but themselves.
One time she asked her mistress, ' Why that room was
locked, and not kept clean for guests, as usually ?’ the mis-
tress answered, ‘ They had no guests fit for that room, for
it was kept for gentlemen.’ Some time afterwards, on a
Sunday, her master gave her the key to fetch his cloak out
of his chest in his chamber ; there she saw the gentleman’s
Suit of clpaths, and his cloak-bag, which she saw him de-
liver to them. About nine weeks afterwards, her mistress
sends her up into the room where the gentleman had been
murdered, to fetch something, it being the first time she
had been in that room since it had been locked: she
searched over the room, and looked upon the tester of
the bed, and there she saw the gentleman’s hat, his
hanger, boots, and the satin cap which she took off the
gentleman’s head, and hanged upon his hat, and laid it
upon the table, when she made a cap of the napkin, and
put-it on the gentleman’s head. She took the gentleman’s
hat, his hanger, boots, and cap, and carried them down
to her mistress and the ostler : she asked her mistress,
i You said the gentleman was gone to London in a coach ;
did he go without clothes, or did you lend him some r—for
I saw his clothes in my master’s chest, and these things are
his too.’ Said the ostler, ‘ You lie, like a whore, those
things are mine.’ The maid answered, ‘ You are a rogue ;
I am sure they were the gentleman’s, I know not whose
they are now.’ Her mistress hearing the maid and the
pstler quarrelling, she fell upon the maid, and there arose
some
he left you a groatand put her hand in her purse, and
gave it her. ‘ Then (said the maid) I will go and make
clean the chamber? ‘ No, (said the mistress) my daughters
and I have set that to rights already; do you what you are
about, and then gp to your flax wheel(the maid being
used to spin flax when she had nothing else to do.) The
phamber door was kept locked for eight or nine weeks after-
wards, and no person admitted to go into it but themselves.
One time she asked her mistress, ' Why that room was
locked, and not kept clean for guests, as usually ?’ the mis-
tress answered, ‘ They had no guests fit for that room, for
it was kept for gentlemen.’ Some time afterwards, on a
Sunday, her master gave her the key to fetch his cloak out
of his chest in his chamber ; there she saw the gentleman’s
Suit of clpaths, and his cloak-bag, which she saw him de-
liver to them. About nine weeks afterwards, her mistress
sends her up into the room where the gentleman had been
murdered, to fetch something, it being the first time she
had been in that room since it had been locked: she
searched over the room, and looked upon the tester of
the bed, and there she saw the gentleman’s hat, his
hanger, boots, and the satin cap which she took off the
gentleman’s head, and hanged upon his hat, and laid it
upon the table, when she made a cap of the napkin, and
put-it on the gentleman’s head. She took the gentleman’s
hat, his hanger, boots, and cap, and carried them down
to her mistress and the ostler : she asked her mistress,
i You said the gentleman was gone to London in a coach ;
did he go without clothes, or did you lend him some r—for
I saw his clothes in my master’s chest, and these things are
his too.’ Said the ostler, ‘ You lie, like a whore, those
things are mine.’ The maid answered, ‘ You are a rogue ;
I am sure they were the gentleman’s, I know not whose
they are now.’ Her mistress hearing the maid and the
pstler quarrelling, she fell upon the maid, and there arose
some