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away together for Mr, Lawrence’s, which was about a mile from thence, where they arrived about half an hour after seven. Mr. Lawrence had just before been paying off some workmen, which were discharged, and gone from the house.
On their arrival at Mr. Lawrence they alighted from their horscs at the outer gate; and Fielder getting over the hatch into the sheep-yard, met with with Mr. Lawrence’s boy putting up some sheep. They seized and prescnted a pistol to him Fielder saying hc would shoot him if he offered to cry out; and then took the boy’s garters and tied his hands, inquiring what servants Mr. Lawrence kept, and who was in the house, which thcy obliged him to tell them. They told him they would not hurt him, but that he must go to the door with them; and when they knocked at it, if any body within should ask who it was, that the boy was to answcr and bid them open the door to let him in and they would give him some money. Accordingly they led the boy to the door, but he was so terrified that he had no power to speak; whereupon Gregory knocked at the door, and called out Mr Lawrence, the man servant apprehending it to be some of ⟨the⟩ ⟨neighbours⟩ only, opened the door, npon which they all rushed in with pistols in their hands crying out D—n your blood, how long have you lived here? and immediately seizing Mr. Lawrence and his man threw a cloath over their faces, and then took ⟨the⟩ boy, and led him into ⟨the⟩ next room, with his hands tied, demanded of him what fire-arms Mr Lawrence had in his house; and being told their was none but an old gun, they went and fetched that, and broke it to pieces; then took Mr Lawrence’s man bound his hands, led him into the next room where the boy was, and made him sit down there; and also bound Mr. Lawrenee. Turpin cut down his breeches; and they fell to rifling his
