A. I must cause some brother of trade who dwells near hand them to tell them who have them that they must be brought back and they should not be wronged.
Q. Why did you not tell of the people who took away these cloaths, seeing thieves ought to be discovered for the good of the country?
A. It doth not belong to me to put out any man, otherwise I should be in eternity this day eight days.
Q. Did any person bring the things back, or how came they back?
A. I brought them not back, but the people who took them away brought them back.
Q. But how could the silver tumbler be brought back and put in a fast-locked room?
A. The person who took it flung it in at the window upon one of the shelves.
(Notandum—Now it was told him that all the windows were fast-snecked, as the servants who went in to take up the tumbler declared.)
Q. Did you not say when the tumbler was got, ‘I must have the hair that was in and about it, for it is the hair of a horse which belonged to a man who is shortly to be hanged for stealing?’
A. Yes.