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and in ye said Letter writt " they would contrive to 

 get ye nest ffrancked, wliich Letter lie Looked on 

 as a Trick as also they and therefore Did not give any informac'. 

 Altho' in ye and first Letter was writt " Let them be bm-ned and 

 posed wee will manage them well enough." That he also 

 Delivered this Letter to ye Grentleman Called as he was informed 

 Mr. Dan. Dufoe in p'sence of Mr. Fenner. That soone after he 

 had delivered ye Letters, one Mr. Jonathan Edwards of this 

 place came alone into ye Eoome while ye Letters he this D'pint 

 had Delivered (were) lyinge then on ye Table. The contents of 

 ye severall Letters, they being so soone Required of him, he 

 cannott more fidly Remember, but only that in one of ye Letters 

 was writt "the Mayor of Norwich had taken some person up or 

 Xmt him to trouble." 



It will further on be seen that Captain James Turner had em- 

 ployed the schoolmaster to decypher the letters for him. 



James Eussell deposes to much the same effect, and " consider- 

 ing that one of the letters contained treasonable words^ advised 

 Captain Turner it was not safe to keep such Letters about him or 

 words to that effect." 



Richard Arnold, Inholder, " on his oath saith, that on Tuesday 

 last two Gentn., who was strangers to this Deji't, one of which 

 went by ye name of Capt. Turner, in company of Mr. Fenner, 

 a minister of this place, sent this Dep't to call Capt. James 

 Turner of this place to them at ye Beare Inn in Melcombe, and 

 to bring with him ye Letters he had directed to one Capt, 

 Turner to be left at Mr. Fenner's, a minister. That accordingly 

 Capt. James Turner came with this Dep't and Delivered ye 

 Letters to one of ye Gent'n, he thinks to that which went by ye 

 name of Capt. Turner, but what ye contents of ye letters were 

 he knoweth not." 



Peter Johnson, of the B. and T., schoolmaster, maketh oath : 

 "That Saturday ye 21st inst. he was desire^d by Capt. James 

 Turner of this place to Eead a Letter for him, which letter 

 was Directed for Capt. Turner to be left at Mr. Fenner's, 

 a minister in Weymouth. Ye said Letter was Dated Thursday 



