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OF THOMAS KIDDERMINSTER, GENT, 14*7
begged the head lining, which she proved to be of a rain-
bow colour : as also, that goodwife Shute, and she the said
Mary Mattocks, being drying their clothes in the church-
yard, Mary Kendall came there also to dry her basket of
clothes ; and she complains to goodwife Shute, saying,
‘ My mistress Sewell, has beaten me cruelly to-day, and
broke my head in three places, and almost killed me ; but
I have told her pretty well of her roguery.’ ‘ What roguery,
saith goodwife Shute ?’ ‘ It is (saith she) concerning the
gentleman they murdered there.’ ‘ Murdered there’—
(saith Shute) dost thou know of any murder done there
(and her kinswoman Mattocks being going away, she with-
held her by the apron, that she might stay to hear what
she would say)—‘ No, goody Shute, (says she) I don’t
know it ; but there is a great suspicion of it.’ So she fell
a telling them the story, that in the heat of the quarrel
her master pulled her out of the room, and cried, * Mary,
will you leave your prating, and be quiet r can’t you be
quiet • but you must talk at tins rate ? your mistress is a
perverse woman, and I’ll give you £20, and you shall be
gone, and live no longer with her and (saith she) goody
Shute, I have the <£20, and I do intend to be gone?—
Saith goody Shute, 6 Mary, Mary, take heed what you
do ; I would give them the £'20 again, and go and acquaint
some justices of the peace with it; for the £'20 may hang
thee twenty years hence ?-—so they parted. By the next
morning all wras hushed up at home, and Mary Kendall
came to goodwife Shute, and begged of her to say nothing
of their yesterday’s discourse ; for what she had then said,
proceeded from passion, or else she had never said it.—
Says Shute, if I do not hear it questioned, I shall say no-
thing of it ; but if at anytime it comes in question, I will
both say it, and make you say it too.”—But Mary Ken-
dall being examined to this matter at the trial. denied the
receiving of the £20.
Mr. Turner
begged the head lining, which she proved to be of a rain-
bow colour : as also, that goodwife Shute, and she the said
Mary Mattocks, being drying their clothes in the church-
yard, Mary Kendall came there also to dry her basket of
clothes ; and she complains to goodwife Shute, saying,
‘ My mistress Sewell, has beaten me cruelly to-day, and
broke my head in three places, and almost killed me ; but
I have told her pretty well of her roguery.’ ‘ What roguery,
saith goodwife Shute ?’ ‘ It is (saith she) concerning the
gentleman they murdered there.’ ‘ Murdered there’—
(saith Shute) dost thou know of any murder done there
(and her kinswoman Mattocks being going away, she with-
held her by the apron, that she might stay to hear what
she would say)—‘ No, goody Shute, (says she) I don’t
know it ; but there is a great suspicion of it.’ So she fell
a telling them the story, that in the heat of the quarrel
her master pulled her out of the room, and cried, * Mary,
will you leave your prating, and be quiet r can’t you be
quiet • but you must talk at tins rate ? your mistress is a
perverse woman, and I’ll give you £20, and you shall be
gone, and live no longer with her and (saith she) goody
Shute, I have the <£20, and I do intend to be gone?—
Saith goody Shute, 6 Mary, Mary, take heed what you
do ; I would give them the £'20 again, and go and acquaint
some justices of the peace with it; for the £'20 may hang
thee twenty years hence ?-—so they parted. By the next
morning all wras hushed up at home, and Mary Kendall
came to goodwife Shute, and begged of her to say nothing
of their yesterday’s discourse ; for what she had then said,
proceeded from passion, or else she had never said it.—
Says Shute, if I do not hear it questioned, I shall say no-
thing of it ; but if at anytime it comes in question, I will
both say it, and make you say it too.”—But Mary Ken-
dall being examined to this matter at the trial. denied the
receiving of the £20.
Mr. Turner