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eut, and fay, How can you ahvays ajk me thefe anifuch
like ^eftions ? and in a particular manner when he was
aficed, Whether his Companion Page was an Accom-
plice with him, either in the AfFair of the Watches, or
any other ? he reply'd, That if he kne'w, he ixould gi've
no direSi Jnfiuer, thinking it to be a Crime in him to
deteft the Guilty.
It was thought ncceflary by the Keepers to remove
him from the Condemn'd-Hold to a Place called the
Caftle, in the Body of the Gaol, and to chain him down
to two large Iron Staples in the Floor, the Concourfe of
People of tolerable Fafhion to fee him was exceeding
great, and he was always chearf ul and pleafant to a De-
gree, as turning almoft every Thing as was faid into a
Jeft and Banter.
Being one Sunday at the Chapel, a Gentleman be-
longing to my Lord-Mayor, afked a Turnkey, Which
nvas Sheppard? The Man pointed to him. Says Shep-
pard. Yes Sir, I am the Sheppard, and all the Gaolers
in ToiAin are my Flock, and I cannot Jiir into the Country,
hut they are all at my Heels handling after me, &c.
He told Mr. Robins the City Smith, That he procured
hi/n a /mall fobb, and that ivhoe'ver it nvas that put the
Spikes on the Condemn'd-Hold luas an honefi Man, for
a better Piece of Metal, fays he, / ne'ver nvrought upon
in my Life.
He was loth to believe his frequent Robberies were
an Injury to the Publick, for he ufed to fay. That if
they 'were ill its one RefpeSi, they ixere as goad in ano-
ther, and that tho" he cared not for ^working much him-
filf^ y^t he nvas defirous that others Jhould not Jiand idle,
more efpecially thofe of his onvtt Trade, 'who nuere ahvays
repairing his Breaches.
When ferious, and that but feldom, he would refleft
on his paft wicked Life ; he declared to us, that for
fevcral Years of his Apprenticelhip, he had an utter
Abhorrence to Women of the Town, and ufed to pelt
them with Dirt when they have fell in his Way, till a
Button-mould-makir, his next Neighbour, left off that
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