uade his master to procure his
discharge so that he might go about his business, or it would be
ruined. 'Proceeding into some discourse, I was saying to him it was a
great providence that I and the maid was not then at home, for if we
had, we should have been killed. He answered, saith he, No, they would
only have bound you and the maid. I asked him, how it was possible to
get in? He answered, one went through the entry in the daytime, and
there lay till night, went upstairs, found a candle, lit it, went up to
his chamber, took the key and went down and let in the others.' Turner
had talked to him about Tryon's will; he said it was a pity he did not
make one; Tryon had told him he had made one, but he knew he had not
done so. 'He told me of one that could counterfeit a hand.'

BRIDGMAN, LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Was it not Grainger?

HILL--Yes, my Lord; that that man could counterfeit a will, and
I and Mr. Garret and another good fellow should be the three
executors and a third person overseer, and that would please the
old man. I answered I would not have to do in such an unjust
thing for all the world.

He had been to supper that night at Starkey's, with the maid. He got to
the house after the robbery had been discovered, and found the
neighbours in the house when he arrived there.

TURNER--This thing touching the will has another face; his uncle
was an acquaintance of Mr. Grainger, his uncle that bound him
an apprentice, that lived in Cripplegate, now in Cornhill. This
Grainger had counterfeited a will touching my Lord Gerrard and
some one else, about an estate. Said I to this young man, You
have an uncle acquainted with a notable fellow, one Grainger,
and your master making no will, speaking merrily, this fellow is
able to make it for him. Ask him if I did not tell him his uncle
was acquainted with such a person.

HILL--You told me so indeed.

BRIDGMAN, LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Hill, by your oath you have taken,
did he not persuade you to endeavour that you and he and
Grainger should counterfeit a will?

HILL--He did, my lord, I answered that I would not meddle with
it for all the world.

TURNER--Go, go, go, this is malice; for it was mere jesting with
him.

_Elizabeth Fry_ proved that Mrs. Turner came to her house at six in the
morning, and said that 'a friend of hers, a merchant, newly broke, had a
wife, and seven or eight