220, 221. William Burn proceedingsdefend and Mary Kipping , otherwise Merrit proceedingsdefend , were indicted for stealing one Pair of Blankets, Value 5 s. one Quilt, Value 10 s. 6 d. a Callico Covering, Value 1 s. three Shirts, Value 6 s. two Damask Napkins, a Camblet Gown, Value 5 s. the Goods of Mary White proceedingsvictim . Mary Kipping < no role > is charged as an Accessary.

Q. < no role > (to Mary White < no role > ) What have you to say against the Prisoner? Did you lose any Thing?

White. Yes, my Lord, a great deal of Cloaths.

Q. When?

White. Last Sunday was Fortnight I lost the Bed Cloaths all off my Bed.

Q. Where?

White. In my Lodgings at Thomas Miller < no role > 's, in Swan Yard, opposite Somerset House.

Q. Are you a married Woman?

White. Please you, my Lord, I am a Widow, and I work plain work. I lost all the Things mention'd in the Indictment.

Court. You lost all these Things?

White. Yes, my Lord, and I got them again at Mary Kipping < no role > 's House, the Prisoner.

Q. Do you know how she came by them? You lost them at your Lodgings at Mr. Thomas Miller < no role > 's.

White. Yes, my Lord, I was in the Kitchen; it was between Nine and Ten in the Morning, and they got into my Parlour.

Q. Do you know how they came to take them?

White. My Lord, this Boy and that Man, they said they robb'd me, the Boy was taken into Custody last Monday was se'nnight.

Q. What's the Name of the Boy?

White. Edward Davis < no role > , the Boy, own'd where my Things were?

Q. Where did you find these Things after you lost them? Had you any Discourse with William Burn < no role > or Mary Kipping < no role > ?

White. I begg'd of her to confess the Things; but she would not own she had them 'till I got a Search Warrant from Justice De Veil, and we found them.

Q. How came you to discover these Persons?

White. The Boy was in Custody, that was the Way I came to hear of the Things.

Q. How did you hear of the Boy that was supposed to have robbed you?

White. A little Girl, about his Bigness, told me she had seen the Boy at Justice De Veil's that robb'd me.

Q. What did you do upon that Information?

White. My Lord, I went to Justice De Veil's for a Search Warrant, and I found the Things at that Woman's House. I search'd at a House by Cowcross.

Q. When you was inform'd you was robb'd, did not you go to the Boy?

White. Yes, my Lord; the constable went to the Boy, and he told where the Goods were.

Court. So you went to Mrs. Kipping's House at Cowcross ?

White. Yes, my Lord.

Q. When you went to Mrs. Kipping with a Search Warrant, did you meet with her?

White. My Lord, she was in Custody at that Time for another Thing; for other People's Affairs, not mine.

Q. The Prisoner herself was in Custody, and what then?

White. We found all thes e Goods in her House.

Q. But do you know how the Prisoner came by them? Had you ever, at any Time, any Conversation with her? When you found the Goods in her House, what did you do then?

White. Sir, the constable took them away, and carried them before Justice De Veil. He took her up and committed her to Gaol.

Q. < no role > (to Edward Davis < no role > .) What do you know of this Matter?

Davis. Please you, my Lord, last Thursday was three Weeks, William Burn < no role > and I sat at the Alehouse Bench opposite to that Gentlewoman's House.

Q. What did you sit there for?

Davis. To see if any body would come out, or any body went in; and so we found no body come out, and we went in, and the Key was in the Back Parlour Door.

Q. And what then?

Davis. We unlock'd the Door.

Q. What then;

Davis. Then we took one of the Sheets, and put all the other Things in.

Q. You had put up these Things, what then?

Davis. Then the Prisoner put them upon his Bulk and came out with them.

Q. Where did you carry them ?

Davis. We carried them to Merrit's, otherwise Kipping.

Q. Did you carry them directly to Mrs Kipping?

Davis. Yes, my Lord.

Q. What then?

Davis. She ask'd what we would have for them; and we told her two Guineas.

Q. Did you say nothing to her when you went in? Did not the Prisoner Burn say something to her?

Davis. No, my Lord. No further than shewing her: He untied them and went up one Pair of Stairs, and shew'd them to her one by one, and she ask'd us what we would have for them; and we told her two Guineas.

Q. Did she ask how he came by them?

Davis. No, my Lord. She knew how he came by them, because he had brought several other Things to her House.

Q. Have you been with him?

Davis. Yes, my Lord.

Q. How often?

Davis. Seven or eight Times.

Q. Did she never ask him any Questions?

Davis. Only ask'd us where we took them from, and we told her.

Q. Did she ask you where you took these Things?

Davis. No, my Lord.

Q. When he ask'd two Guineas, what did she say to them?

Davis. She said she would not give the Money. Please you my Lord, she and her Husband got out of the Bed, and got a Guinea chang'd, and gave us five and twenty Shillings.

Q. When she said she would not give two Guineas, what did she say she would give?

Davis. One Guinea my Lord.

Q. What then?

Davis. He said he would not take a Guinea, so she gave another Crown.

Court. You said something of her Husband's getting out of Bed.

Davis. He got out of Bed and gave a Guinea to change.

Q. What then?

Davis. Then we went away directly.

Q. Was that all that passed ?

Davis. Yes, my Lord.

Q. < no role > (to the Prisoner) What have you to say?

Prisoner. My Lord he says I open'd the Parlour-Door; it was no such Thing please you my Lord, he (the Witness) went into the House himself.

Q. < no role > (to the Prisoner Kipping) You hear what this Witness says, will you ask him any Questions?

Prisoner. I would ask whose Money it was I got chang'd for to pay five and twenty Shillings?

Court. He says your Husband gave you a Guinea.

Q. < no role > (to William Body < no role > This name instance is in set 3514. ) What do you know of this Matter?

Body. I knew Kipping a pretty While ago. She has not liv'd with this Man but since she has kept this Nursery. We found these Goods that have been mention'd in her Custody.

Q. Are you the Person that serv'd the Warrant? Did she tell you how she came by these Things?

Body. She said they were Jack Merrit < no role > 's, her Husband's.

Q. What then?

Body. I told her, Kipping was alive, and he was an Officer, &c.

Q. How do you know Kipping was her Husband?

Body. They liv'd as Man and Wife many Years together.

Q. < no role > (to the Prisoner Kipping) Will you ask this Witness any Questions?

Prisoner. When you met me on the Stairs did I squeeze you?

Body. I did not say it was you; I said it was James's Daughters, and, my Lord, we found this Fellow, Burn, (the Prisoner) in the Cock-Lost at this Merrit's House: We open'd a litle Place where he sat, and I said to my Brother Constable, shoot him, if he won't come down; with that he came down directly; I got away immediately, knowing what Place we were in being so very near Black-Boy-Alley, and knowing what desperate Folks have been there.

Burn Guilty .

Mary Kipping < no role > Guilty , as an Accessary.

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