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!46 LONG CONCEALED MURDER
some hot words betwixt them, that her mistress broke her
head in three several places, so that the blood did run
about her ears. The maid talked the louder, and asked
her, ‘ Whether she intended to murder her, as she did the
gentleman ?’ Then her master, hearing this disturbance,
came to them, and persuaded her to hold her tongue and
be quiet. She further deposed, that the ostler had from
his master <£60 of the gentleman’s money ; for that some
short time after the murder, he lent the <£60 to a woman
that kept the Greyhound Inn in the same town ; and that
that must be the money, for the ostler was worth nothing of
his own at the time of the murder ; and that the ostler had
the gentleman’s clothes, which she had seen in her master’s
chest; and that the ostlqr sent therp to one Clarke, a dyer,
in Mousam, to have them dyed into a liver colour; the
dyer asked him, ‘ why he would have the colour altered,
since they were of a better colour before ?’ The ostler
answered, 4 that he would have them dyed, because he did
not like the colourf and that about a twelvemonth after,
lie dyed the grey hat black. Then §be deposed further,
that her master raised himself to a good condition upon a
sudden ; for before he was so poor, that his landlord would
not trust him for a quarter’s rent, but would make him
pay every six weeks ; and that he could not be trusted
with malt, was forced to pay for one barrel under another.
That shortly after they bought a ruined malt-house, and
new built it, and did usually lay out <£40 in a day to buy
barley. There was seen, upon a sudden, a great changer
in the daughters’ condition, both as to their clothes and
otherwise ; and if she bought but a hood for one of the
daughters, there was a piece of gold changed ; and they
were observed to have gold in great plenty.”
Mary Mattocks deposes—44 She says, the ostler carried
a grey hat to the hatters : which being left there, after the
ostler went away, .she went thither and viewed it, and
begged
some hot words betwixt them, that her mistress broke her
head in three several places, so that the blood did run
about her ears. The maid talked the louder, and asked
her, ‘ Whether she intended to murder her, as she did the
gentleman ?’ Then her master, hearing this disturbance,
came to them, and persuaded her to hold her tongue and
be quiet. She further deposed, that the ostler had from
his master <£60 of the gentleman’s money ; for that some
short time after the murder, he lent the <£60 to a woman
that kept the Greyhound Inn in the same town ; and that
that must be the money, for the ostler was worth nothing of
his own at the time of the murder ; and that the ostler had
the gentleman’s clothes, which she had seen in her master’s
chest; and that the ostlqr sent therp to one Clarke, a dyer,
in Mousam, to have them dyed into a liver colour; the
dyer asked him, ‘ why he would have the colour altered,
since they were of a better colour before ?’ The ostler
answered, 4 that he would have them dyed, because he did
not like the colourf and that about a twelvemonth after,
lie dyed the grey hat black. Then §be deposed further,
that her master raised himself to a good condition upon a
sudden ; for before he was so poor, that his landlord would
not trust him for a quarter’s rent, but would make him
pay every six weeks ; and that he could not be trusted
with malt, was forced to pay for one barrel under another.
That shortly after they bought a ruined malt-house, and
new built it, and did usually lay out <£40 in a day to buy
barley. There was seen, upon a sudden, a great changer
in the daughters’ condition, both as to their clothes and
otherwise ; and if she bought but a hood for one of the
daughters, there was a piece of gold changed ; and they
were observed to have gold in great plenty.”
Mary Mattocks deposes—44 She says, the ostler carried
a grey hat to the hatters : which being left there, after the
ostler went away, .she went thither and viewed it, and
begged