512Court and Testamentary Business, 1657.

         Liber B. that his master and Richard Blinks was gone a fishing who

         No. 3. answered and Said the Devil go with them both for he

             did not Care if they never Came home againe whereupon

             one Stephen Servant also to the Said Thomas replyed and

             Swore that he did not Care if they never Came home, and

             farther Saith that the Said Stephen upon Witsun monday last

             as they were planting of Corne did wish that the Devill had

             his master, and that he would aiwayes do him deceitfull work

             as Long as he was wth him, & this Examd Saith tht he hath

             formrly heard the Sd Stephen wish tht there were a knife at his

             masters heart nine Inches Deep. John Robinson

        p. 288 The Examinacon of ffran: Spencer

               The Examination of ffrancis Spencer Servant to rnt William

             Ewens, Sworne and Examined in open Court the 16th of lune

             1657 Saith, That upon the fourteenth of this Instant month

             being Sunday in the Morning, William Tony Servant to iif

             Chaplin Came to my Masters house unto the Quarter where I

             was, and told me he had Somthing to Say unto me, where-

             upon I went out of Door with him he told me that he and

             Iohn his fellow Servant did intend to go away very Speedily,

             with Sonic other Servants in the River, and asked me and

             Councelled me to go along with him, which I refused and told

             him I would not, In the Same day in the afternoon, I mett with

             Stephen mr Thomas his Boy, and he asked me if I would go

             along with him, and told me that they were a providing for to

             go away, and they had got a Heetch of Bacon, I refused to

             Consent unto him. And farther the Sd Stephen did Say, if

             they Could they would go away the next Sunday if I would go

             with them, farther this Depont Saith that the Said Tony En-

             quired of him this Depont what Gunnes we had in the house,

             and Councelled me to gett one or more, to which I answered,

             that we had none but one of mr Smithes, and one match Lock,

             and Said I would not, and asked him the Said Tony, what

             Gunnes they had, he the Said Tony told me that he would

             provid one if he Could, And farther this Deponent Sayth not

                                             Signum

                                           ffran: x Spenser

               The Examination of Stephen Chaplin in open Court Sayth,

             That upon Sunday last was a Senight mr Chaplin's man Wil-

             liam Tony Came to this Examined Master's house Speaking

             to Robert Chissick one of Mr Thomas his Servants about their

             last running away the Said Chissick replyed that he would not

             run away againe, The Said Tony Said that he did believe mr

             Caryes frenchman would run away if any body would go with

         p 289 him, upon which the Said Chissick replyed that, that if the