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 brought her any, ſent for an officer, and delivered him up, accuſing him of murder.

Soon after Thoroughgood coming to ſee her, she with a moſt conſummate impudence it and ſaid, “I have ſeen him with my maid ſervant ſeveral times, and have been informed that he had a violent paſſion for her, and ſhe for him, but until then I thought it innocent. I know my maid to be very poor and given to exceſſive pleaſures and therefore I imagine that ſhe inflnencedinfluenced [sic] him to commit the murder to ſupply her extravagancies.”

This and more arts ſhe uſed to perſuade him of her innocence, and with all urged her betraying him, but Lucy had too well informed him of her arts for him to be deceived by her, at length the ſaid, “I have an evidence within my houſe that will ſilence all objections againſt my conduct.” While ſhe was gone in, Lucy and Trueman arrived bringing with them ſome officers to ſecure her, which they did, as ſhe was returning to Thoroughgood with a piſtol in her hand. She was immediatlyimmediately [sic] ſent to NawgateNewgate [sic], and lay till the enſuing ſeſſions.

The trial was mournful: Barnwell’s youth and modeſt deportment drew tears from every eye. When placed at the bar, with many tears and interuptinginterrupting [sic] ſobs he confeſ-