State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
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State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
Trials -- Great Britain
HOBBS--He came again in about a quarter of an hour: When he
came again, he went upstairs, changed a guinea, he asked what
was to pay? I told him four shillings and one penny half-penny,
and then went away. About an hour and a half after Mahony and
the other came again, sweating, and said they had been a mile
or two out in the country. Mahony asked credit for a tankard of
ale, and said his master would come up on Saturday following,
and then he would pay for it: Well, said I, if he is to come up
on Saturday, I will not stand for a tankard of ale; but if he
don't come, how shall I have my reckoning? Says Mahony, I live
at the Scotch arms in Marsh-street. Well, said I, I will not
deny drawing you a tankard of ale, if you never pay me. Said
he, You had best get the room ready against Saturday, and make
a fire, and just dust it.
VERNON--Pray, when Mr. Goodere went away from your house was he
in the same dress as when he came that day?
HOBBS--No, Sir. When he came there he had a light-coloured
coat, and he looked like a country farmer at his first coming
in; but when he was out, he had a scarlet cloak on, wore a
sword, and had a cane in his hand; a porter brought him the
things.
VERNON--Do you know any thing of what happened on the Sunday
following?
HOBBS--Yes, Sir; the Sunday morning Mahony came to my house,
having trousers, a short jacket and leather cap on, asked for a
quart of ale, this was Sunday: My wife said, Don't draw any
more upon tick. Mahony gave a sixpence and paid for it, and
said, See that the room be clear, the captain will be up in the
afternoon, and then he will be here; And as he was going out of
the house, he said to me, If you fortune to see that gentleman
go up with the black cap before that time, do you send a porter
to me to the Scotch arms. I told him I had no porter, and could
not send. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon when he came again
with a person who had a scalled face, and one or two more, a
man who lodged in the house came and told me, that they wanted
to go up stairs; but I would not let them, because it was in
service-time. They all went into the parlour, and had a quart
of ale, and when that was drunk, Mahony called for another; and
then eight or nine men more came and called for ale, and went
into the parlour, but still kept looking out; and one of them
being a little fellow, I don't know his name, kept slamming the
door together, ready to break the house down. Says I, Don't
break my house down about my ears, don't think you are in
Marsh-street; then the little fellow came up as if he was going
to strike me, as I was coming up out of the cellar with a
dobbin of ale in my hand, for a gentleman going to the college;
I saw this gentleman (pointing to the prisoner Samuel Goodere)
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