sently, and he, and I, and others went out again upon the Old Game, till I was taken up for Clacking the Doctor at an Apothecary's in the Strand , and was committed to Newgate , upon which I turned Evidence against Fluellin in order to regain my own Liberty.

The ensuing Sessions Fluellin was convicted and I was discharged out of Custody. On the Monday after my Enlargement I happened to meet one Lydia Clark< no role > , and went to drink with her at the Elephant and Castle in Fleet Lane . There I found P - g Y - g (my Wife as I call'd her) and C - n and one B - n G - d, a Thief-taker C - n immediately told my Wife, - there was the Thief her Husband, and he said he would take me up again by Vertue of the Judge's Warrant, if I did not give him a Note for the Value of the Rings; upon which I gave him a Note for 4 l. payable two Months after Date. Notwithstanding I had done this he soon after arrested P - g Y - g in an Action for 20 l. thinking that the Value I had for her would induce me to assign over to him my Share of the Reward for Fluellin's Conviction, to get her out of Wood-street Compter, where she lay at his Suit; and he Note I had given him being due soon after, arrested me likewise, and I was carried to the Marshalsea Prison ; but as I had a little Money left, and a few Friends to assist me, I stood Trial with C - n, and was cast in the Sum of Eight Pounds, including Debt and Costs of Suit.

While I was confined on this Account in the Marshalsea , Thomas Mann< no role > , (the Evidence against me) and I agreed to make our Escapes. By my Directions a Friend of his brought us a Spring Saw, a Key Hole Saw, and some Gimblets, and I began to will it away at the Chapel, from whence I broke into adjoining Room, and from thence into a Closet, where I cut the Window Bar, and took off the Casement.

All Things being now ready, I returned to Mann, (who all this while had done nothing) and old him the Jo was done, upon which he took a Hope that his Wife had brought him the Evening before for this Purpose, and ty'd it to a Bar of the Window, and he got down first and I followed him. This was between eight and nine o'Clock at Night, rather too early in the Evening, for a Man came out of a House adjoining, and would have stopped us, but Mann swore bitterly if he made any Noise he would kill him, which made him quiet, and so we got off to Pepper-Aliey Stairs , where we took Boat to Queenhithe , from whence I went directly to my Friends at Clerkenwell , and promised them I would go over to Holland if they would pay for my Passage. They gave me Money for that Purpose, and promised to supply me very handsomely when they heard of my Arrival there; but Mann and I going to Mrs. M - 's at the Ship in Charter house-Lane , there I spent all the Money my Friends had given me, and got very much in Liquor; then I started the Question to him about going on the Road; he consented, and Mrs. M - s furnished me with a Hanger and a Brace of Pistols, and lent us Money to hire our Horses, and accordingly we hired Horses under Pretence of going down in the Country to buy Sheep, Mann being a Butcher by Trade; but Mann being fearful, he proposed Bargining in the Country for Sheep, and giving Earnest for a Parcel, then to watch an Opportunity in the Night to drive them off the Grounds. I consented to this, and we went as far as the Fleece at Edmonton upon this Project, there we drank two or three Hot-pots, and then he agreed to venture upon the Highway, instead of pursuing the former Design.

Accordingly we set out from thence and robbed a Coach beyound Edmonton , from four Ladies we took 35 s. from a single Man on Horseback we took about 12 s. and a silver Watch. Then we returned to London , and put up our Horses at the Red-Lyon in Aldersgate-street (where we hir'd them) and went from thence to M - 's, and shared the Money.

The next Morning I went with Mann to his Wife's Lodgings in Rose-street , by Old-Street-Square , and from thence we took Horse and rode as far as Brentwood , in which Road we robbed the Passengers in two Waggons of about l 7 s. and three plain Gold Rings. Then we turned homewards, and robbed two Gentlemen in the Road between the Green-Man on the Forrest and Stratford of about 4 l. and a Watch; then we proceeded towards London, but in the Way I got a Fall from my Horse, and was very much hurt; however we got to M - 's, and shar'd the Money.

My Hurt obliged me to keep up for two or three Days, and Mann could do nothing without me; when I was pretty well we agreed to go our again the Afternoon after Christmas-Day , and accordingly we set out for the Castle at where we had a Supper dressed. After Supper we agreed to go on the Road the Backside of Islington ,