ket, touching Mr. Turner's going
about removal of the money into the Minories; and before Turner
came in, he examined Mrs. Turner upon that note: says he, you
were there too, and carried the money. Says she, she [_i.e._
Mrs. Fry] is a liar and a whore for saying so. Col. Turner came
in and said, why do you torment and vex my wife; and falling a
cursing, and swearing and banning, said she was with child, you
will make her miscarry, let her alone. Sir T. Aleyn examined him
where he had been that day, and that night; he told me of many
taverns, and going to see his horse, and I know not what, but we
found him faltering. When the jewels were brought, there being
two notes, sir T. Aleyn had one, and I another. The old
gentleman was so joyful to see them again, that lying by him,
and handling them, he pulled two or three down with his sleeve.
Says Mr. Turner, come, I know what belongs to them better than
any of you, and read them over, and I will shew them you. There
wanting one jewel, says he, that rogue that has the other money
hath this jewel, but I do not doubt but I shall find that out
too. We put them all together, and sir T. Aleyn sealed them with
his seal. For the bags of money, I saw them taken out, and one
being sealed with a small seal, I put on both my spectacles, I
found a lion rampant at top in one of the quarters; said I, this
is a seal of some great person; and then a letter was brought
down, and being compared, I was satisfied in my conscience they
were alike. Sir T. Aleyn told me he must make a mittimus for him
and his wife: said she, Do you send me of your errands? you
shall send somebody else another time: I thought it would come
to this. After much ranting and swearing (I thought the devil
would have fetched him out of the room) he said, that he had
better have kept the jewels, than to bring them forth, and to
suffer for it himself, for he had pawned his soul, and would not
reveal it; and said, that Mr. Tryon had likewise engaged the
like to him. For the L600 he offered his bond.
_Hill_ recalled, said that Turner had been employed by Tryon about some
mortgages; but he knew of no particulars.
SIR T. ALEYN--My lord, John Turner his son there, fled away from
me when I came to the house in the Minories.
BRIDGMAN, LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Why did you fly away?
JOHN
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