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and sayd farther that the Offycers .... tooke from them soe much 

 broken money as he coulde holde in bothe his hands a Goulde Hinge a Poynyard 

 A Hatt faced w th Velvett a Jerkyn and a handerkercheefe. And sayth that this 

 ext and Bacon brake a Parsons howse the next nighte after they brake the howse 

 at Cosley and toke from thence about forty peeces of pewter vessells and a gobblett 

 All w dl Bacon most impudently denyed notw th standing Snow very confydentlye 

 avowed yt before him." 



The weight of this charge pressed chiefly against a certain Trivett, 

 whose dwelling seems to have been a recognized house of reception 

 for articles of uncertain ownership, and of resort for ladies and 

 gentlemen of no fixed address. Walter Jacobb, of Wincanton, 

 makes, in this case, a deposition not free from ambiguity. He 

 states : — 



" That the last time he [witness'] sawe the said Trivate and his wife he 

 [Trivett] was at Fisherton in the Gaole .... as he [witness'] passed 

 alonge whom [Trivett] he [witness] only saluted, by w ch place he [witness] past 

 as he went into the Cittie of Sarum to buy a paire of Spectakles, and had not 

 that day come theather, saving the day was fowle that he could not imploye 

 harvest worke for w ch he travelled upp into Wilts." 



Another witness in the case was a young woman of a roving 

 disposition, described as one " whoe hath longe wandred the 

 country," who, with another damsel equally unsettled : — 



" Both came unto the sayd Tryvatts howse in the grossing of the y evening, 

 beinge on a Satterday, where they founde a shoulder of mutton at the fyer," 



Miss Sarah Turpin — for such was this lady's name — proceeds to 

 relate that : — 



" Bakon and Burre brought w th them the cloth w ch made the Cloke and 

 Savegarde * that was founde at Tryvatts hows upon the Searche and also the Eed 

 Petticoate. The Cloke and Savegarde was made by on Fryar a Tayler of Meere, 

 The Eed Petticoat was cut shorter by Tryvatts wyfe and newe hemmed agayne 

 by her ... . One of Mere did bringe unto Tryvatt's wyfe the Thrumes 

 of Lynnen and the Harnys of Lynnen Clothe that was founde at Tryvatts house 

 in the sayd Searche." 



•No doubt the same as Saviarde, which Halliwell Phillips, followed by Planche, defines as "a 

 kind of jacket, worn towards the end of the seventeenth century " But if, as seems probable, 

 the modistes of Mere lagged a little behind the fashion, the word saviard, (rightly or wrongly 

 applied) must have been one of popular currency nearly a century earlier. 



