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OF THOMAS KIDDERMINSTER, GENT. 149
about those hours they heard a noise in Mr. Sewell’s house,
and a man’s voice crying, £ What, will you rob me of my
money, and murder me too ?—If you take my money,
spare my life.’ Then they heard something that fell very
heavy, and a noise as it were of chairs and stools thrown
about the room, and all the lights put out, and after that
no further noise heard.”
The next morning these women enquired at the house,
what might be the occasion of the noise the night before ;
for they thought they heard somebody cry out murder !-—
But they were answered, they must needs be mistaken ;
for there was no noise there, nor was any body in the house
but their own family.
William Denton, Mr. Kidderminster’s servant in the
Isle of Ely, was produced as evidence, to prove the horse
and the gentleman’s clothes and hat, which he did.
There was a washerwoman who washed the next wasli
after the gentleman was murdered, who being examined
by a justice of the peace, and asked, whether she found in
the wash any linen more bloody than ordinary ; she utterly
denied that she did—with this imprecation, “ That if there
was any such, she wished she might rot aliveand so it
happened ; for a little time after her bowels began to rot
away, and she became detestably loathsome till she died.
Mr. Turner and his wife related to Mrs. Kidderminster,
that some time after the murder of her husband, there came
a farmer to lodge at Sewell’s inn, who received <£20 in the
town for barley, which Sewell had heard of-And in the
night time Sewell came to this farmer’s chamber door, at-
tempting to get in; but the farmer had very carefully set a
table, chairs and stools to blockade the entrance. The
noise he made awaked him ; whereupon he swore, that the
first man that broke in upon him, should meet his death,—•
Upon which he heard Sewell’s voice, which he knew very
well, speaking to somebody that was with him; so they
x went
about those hours they heard a noise in Mr. Sewell’s house,
and a man’s voice crying, £ What, will you rob me of my
money, and murder me too ?—If you take my money,
spare my life.’ Then they heard something that fell very
heavy, and a noise as it were of chairs and stools thrown
about the room, and all the lights put out, and after that
no further noise heard.”
The next morning these women enquired at the house,
what might be the occasion of the noise the night before ;
for they thought they heard somebody cry out murder !-—
But they were answered, they must needs be mistaken ;
for there was no noise there, nor was any body in the house
but their own family.
William Denton, Mr. Kidderminster’s servant in the
Isle of Ely, was produced as evidence, to prove the horse
and the gentleman’s clothes and hat, which he did.
There was a washerwoman who washed the next wasli
after the gentleman was murdered, who being examined
by a justice of the peace, and asked, whether she found in
the wash any linen more bloody than ordinary ; she utterly
denied that she did—with this imprecation, “ That if there
was any such, she wished she might rot aliveand so it
happened ; for a little time after her bowels began to rot
away, and she became detestably loathsome till she died.
Mr. Turner and his wife related to Mrs. Kidderminster,
that some time after the murder of her husband, there came
a farmer to lodge at Sewell’s inn, who received <£20 in the
town for barley, which Sewell had heard of-And in the
night time Sewell came to this farmer’s chamber door, at-
tempting to get in; but the farmer had very carefully set a
table, chairs and stools to blockade the entrance. The
noise he made awaked him ; whereupon he swore, that the
first man that broke in upon him, should meet his death,—•
Upon which he heard Sewell’s voice, which he knew very
well, speaking to somebody that was with him; so they
x went