On the 28th of November last Philomen Hemling came to their mother's house, and offered to sell four pieces of stuff. Their mother bade him bring them, that she might see them, and as she said intended to stop them, as believing them to be stolen. And Philomen Hemling not coming with the pieces as aforesaid, and the said Hemling saying that he quartered at Mary Allsopp's of Trowse Milgate, the deponents' mother bade them go to the said Mary Allsopp's house and see after the said Hemling and stuffs, and accordingly they went to Mary Allsopp's house on the first instant in the morning and there found Philomen Hemling. And asking of the said Hemling what he had done with the four pieces of stuff he spake of to their mother, he said that he had sold them to Mary the wife of George Allsopp of Trowse aforesaid for forty shillings, and that the said Mary Allsopp had of him seven pieces of stuff for the forty shillings which she was to pay him twenty shillings in money, a coat of her husband's at fourteen shillings, a shirt at three shillings. and a shift for the said Hemling's mistress at three shillings which was to be the other twenty shillings. And they further saith they went away and acquainted their uncle William Dix the constable of South Conisford Ward.
The last night about seven a clock he being at Edward Whitmore's house in St Edmund's parish drinking with some friends at which time he had a horse in Whitmore's yard whereon was seven pieces of stuff called 'tamynes'. And he further saith that some person unknown did take off, steal and carry away the said seven pieces of stuff.
About the 29th of November last Philomen Hemling did take off a horse in Edward Whitmor's yard in St Edmund parish seven pieces of stuff, and carried them to Mary Allsopp's house in Bracondale, and she the said Mary Allsopp took the pieces and put them up in hay chamber. And she further saith the said Mary Allsopp did agree with the said Philomen Hemling and the said deponent for the stuffs and was to give them forty shillings, and gave each of them a shift and five shillings in money, which she accounted to them for twenty shillings, and a coat of her husband's, George Allsopp's, for fifteen shillings, and in drink five shillings. And she further saith that Philomen Hemling... to... Mary Allsopp... her linen shifts to her again for four shillings and nine pence. And that she further saith that she and the said Hemling lived at the said Mary Allsopp's about a week. And she further saith that she never did see the seven pieces of stuffs since without the pieces now shown her be those which she is apt to believe they are.