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10 some money. According they led the boy to the door; but he was so terrified that he had not power to speak; whereupon Gregory knocked at the door, and calling out Mr Laurence, the man servant, supposing it to be some of the neighbours only, opened the door, upon which they all rushed in with pistols in their hands, crying out, with horrid imprecations, How long have you lived here? and seizing Mr Laurence and his man, threw a cloth over their faces; and then took the boy, and led him into the next room, with his hands tied, demanding of him what fire-arms Mr Laurence had in the house; and being told there was none but an old gun; they went and fetched that; and broke it to pieces; then took Mr Laurence's man, and binding his hands, led him into the room where the boy was, and made him sit down there; and also bound Mr Laurence. Turpin cut down his breeches; and they fell to rifling his pockets; out of which they took one guinea, one Portugal piece of thirty-six shillings, about fifteen shillings in silver, and his keys. They said that money was not enough, that they must have more, and drove Mr Laurence up stairs; where coming to a closet, although they had taken the key from Mr Laurence before, and had in it their custody; yet they broke open the door, and took out from thence two guineas, ten shillings in silver, a silver cup, thirteen silver spoons, two gold rings, and what they could find; and in their search meeting with a bottle of elder wine, they obliged the servants to drink twice of it. They brought Mr Laurence down stairs again, and threatened to cut his throat; and Rose put a knife to it, as if he intended to do it, to make him confess what money was in the house. One of them took a chopping-bill, and threatened to cut off his leg. They broke his head with their pistols, and dragged him about by the hair of the