Exaints. Boys lighted ye. sd. Edward Newton< no role > out of the
Back Door of the said house and this Exaint. sent the said
Boy to light home the sd. Edward Newton< no role > and Shut to ye.
Door & that in abt. three or four minutes the sd. Edward
Newton< no role > came back to the sd. house and declared he had
lost a Bag of mony containing above one hundred pounds and thisInformt.Exant (mistaking the sd.
Edward Newton< no role > for the Son of one Newton a Mathematicin
who formerly dwelt in ye house of this Examint. and
who was reported to be in indifferent circumstances) told
the sd. Edwd. Newton neither he nor his Father before him
were ever worth a hundred pounds wch. words this Exait.
spoke in the Kitchen in ye presence of the sd. Rice & Parker
and both the sd Wm. Rice & Nicholas Parker< no role > seemed to
agree with this Exait. and said the sd. Edward Newton< no role > was
an idle person and never had ye. mony and the said
Edward Newton declared to the sd. Wm. Rice & Nicholas
Parker< no role > that he brought the said Bag of mony into ye.
company and called for a Constable wch. this Exait.
refused to be sent for sit being Sunday morning and this
Exait apprehending the sd. Edwd. Newton was not
worth ye. mony he pretended he had lost and thereupon
this Exait. went to Bed and left the sd. Edwd. Newton
Wm. Rice & Nicholas Parker< no role > in the said Kitchen
And the Exait. Thomas Atkinson< no role > saith that Four persons
whose names as he hath been since inform'd are Lister
Nicholas parker< no role > Wm. Rice< no role > & Edwd. Newton< no role > came
into the house of John Atherton< no role > this Exaits. Master
who keeps the Dog Tavern at Billinsgate on Saturday
the 30th. of April last abt. 7 of the clock in the
Evening and the said persons all drank very hard
till abt. ten of the clock at wch. time Mr. Lister and
Edwd. Newton each of them drank at a Draught
a Rummer full of white & red Portmixo containing