Thomas the time the
robbery was committed? I shall ask him some questions.
SIR T. ALEYN--I have only one more word to say to you: That
before he went to the Hoop-tavern, Nay, said I, col. Turner, be
ingenuous whether this was not Mr. Tryon's money that he
removed? And he confessed it was.
LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE HYDE--The money was removed from his own
house.
SIR T. ALEYN--Yes; but his wife, children, and maid denied it.
LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE HYDE--Mr. Turner, will you ask him any
questions? What are they?
TURNER--I would ask all this back again: You are upon your oath,
Mr. Alderman.
LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE HYDE--You need not tell him that he is sworn;
the court and jury understand it so.
LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE BRIDGMAN--Go on, Mr. Turner; ask your
questions.
TURNER--My Lord, I demand of sir Thomas Aleyn whether I did not
tell him at the first there was a wicked young man had belied my
house and family, saying, that he supped there that night, when
he had not supped at my house these 12 months.
SIR T. ALEYN--I think I have done him that right already. He
desired me to examine that young man, who said he had supped at
col. Turner's; but I found he had not been, nor was not there.
TURNER--Upon Friday night, when the alderman pressed me
concerning the thing, I told him I had some suspicion of some
persons, who formerly should have robbed Mr. Tryon a year ago,
and I employed Mosely the constable and Mr. Tryon's man to go to
Ratcliff, and I went another way. Pray ask sir Thomas whether I
did not promise to do all I could.
SIR T. ALEYN--I pressed him hard; he said he would endeavour it
TURNER--Whether did not I tell him that that money was carried
there on purpose to gain the other fellows that had the jewels?
Said I, If this money be taken away, he that hath the jewels
will not bring them, and the remainder of the money; but that
this money must bring him to it, that they might share it.
SIR T. ALEYN--There was not one word of this: his Examination
was contrary. He told me L400 was received of a goldsmith, he
knew not his name, and L200 was in his own house; and that he
removed it for two or three days, till this foolery was over. He
said it was his own money. I said, an honest man need not thus
remove his own money. One thing I have omitted: when I
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