210 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658.

Liber
P. C. R.

This Exam^d being demanded how shee came by M^r Ouerzees goods,
first deliuered a Paper signed by her selfe & wittnessed by Philip
Land, Contayning her Confession hereunto annexed. And then
further confessed That shee desyred M^r Chandler to lett her haue
the keyes to fetch some spice uppon that Sunday morning uppon
w^ch M^rs Ouerzee was carryed to Church to be buryed. That M^r
Chandler being in Bed in the loft, Mary Clocker called this Exam^d
up (shee being in bed) to goe fetch the Bunch of Keyes from M^r
Chandler uppon pretence to take spice, that they might open M^rs
Ouerzees Trunks, w^ch shee accordingly did. That Mary Clocker
lay in the roome, & that shee shutt the spring lock on them both,
when they had the keyes of the Trunk. That shee this Exam^d did
open the upper part of the Create Dutch Trunk that stood in the

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Roome (Viz that Roome where M^rs Ouerzee in her life time lay) &
that out of th^t upper part of the Trunk Mary Clocker grasped a
bundle of Linnen bigger then fowre or fiue shiffts could possibly
make but what they were as to quantity or quality shee then knew
not. Shutting downe the Trunk immediately & goeing out imme-
diately telling the s^d Clocker M^r Chandler was comming. That the s^d
Clocker called her back againe alleaging M^r Chandler was not com-
ming, to w^ch shee this Exam^d assented, & putting the doore to shee
then opened the Vnder Drawers of the s^d Dutch Trunk w^ch were full
of small linnen, out of w^ch the s^d Clocker tooke & tumbled out what
shee pleased into her Apron, but what they were shee knew not then
nor afterwards, but by the Relaon of Mary Clocker, when shee came
to see the child of M^r Ouerzee then att nurse w^th the s^d Clocker. Att
what time shee brought out some things & shared them w^th this
Exam^d, But whither they were all that shee tooke out of the Trunk
shee knoweth not, but beleiueth th^t they were not all, by the bignes of
the Bundle shee tooke out of the upper part of the Trunk afores^d,
That uppon the ffriday after M^rs Ouerzee was buryed M^r Chandler
deliuering some Keyes to this Exam^d to lay up a peice of Cloth, shee
by the helpe of those Keyes opened a Trunk in an upper Roome
where M^r Chandler lay, & tooke those things out, w^ch were after hid
in the Tree by her husband, & after fownd by the Children, & after
th^t conueyed by her s^d husband to Andrew Warners. That for those
goods carryed in a Bagge by Warners Wife to the Church & from
thence by John Williams to Andrew Warners shee this Exam^d tooke
them out of M^rs Ouerzees Closett, w^ch euery Body ordinarily went
into, for meate & other necessaries of houshould. That there stood
another Trunk in the Chamber where Mary Clocker law, in w^ch was
all the sheetes & Chilbed Linnen M^rs Ouerzee had intended for her
Lying in: & all the Childs Linnen th^t uppon the ffriday night after
the Buriall of M^rs Ouerzee this Exam^d casually left the Keyes in this
Trunk all the Linnen being in the Trunk att that time when shee
forgott the Key in itt. That Mary Clockers Daughter Mary Lay
w^th her mother th^t night. That this Exam^d lay there allso but went