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126 to me, and then I charged the watch with her, and bade them take her away, and take care of her. When she was gone, I found another bundle in my bed-chamber. Upon this I called to Mr. Gehagan, and showed it to him; whereupon we resolved to make a thorough search, and so I looked in the close-stool, where we found some more linen, and a pint silver tankard, with a bloody handle. We then went to one of the watchmen again, and he said he had let her go, upon her promising to come again at ten o'clock in the morning. I bade him find her out, by all means. He called to his brother watchman at the gate, and they went out and brought her to me. I showed her the bloody tankard and linen, and asked her if they were her's? She said yes, they were left her by her mother. I asked her how the handle of the tankard came to be bloody? She said she had cut her finger: and as for the linen, she said, it was not blood upon it, but a disorder.

Counsel. What kind of linen was it? did you open the bundle?

Kerrel. I opened that which I found in my bed-chamber; but my confusion was so great, that I don't know whether it was shifts or aprons. She told me the tankard had been in pawn, and that she had pawned my waistcoats to redeem it. The watchman carried her to the watch-house, and there they found a green silk purse, with twenty-one counters, in her bosom.

Court. Are you positive that she owned the tankard and linen to be her's?

Kerrel. Yes; but the linen in her gown was left unopened, till after she was sent to the watch-house.

Prisoner. Was the linen you found in the close-stool bloody?

Kerrel. I am not sure whether it was that or the linen that was found under my bed that was bloody, for I was very much surprised, and I brought down the one parcel, and Mr. Gehagan brought another, and we threw them down in the watchman's box, and so they were mixed together.

Court. Shew the tankard to the jury, and unseal