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Court of Chancery. He here observed that he had
done so in one case ; that an objection had been
raised to his obtaining the money, but they were
afterwards obliged to give it up. After this informa-
tion, I acted with confidence. Fletcher told me he
had shown the will to Barber, who said it was all right.
As the time drew near, when I was to go to
the Bank, Fletcher said I must be identified. I asked,
Are you going to identify me ?' He replied, No ;
I e should not be seen with me, but Mr. Barber would
do all that might be required ; he knew all about the
business, therefore, he would answer all questions.'
Mr. Fletcher then gave me Barber's address, and said
he would take me to him on the following morning.
He told me to disguise myself as I had done before,
and to get into an omnibus that would put me dots n
at the corner of Farringdon-street, about eleven
o'clock. I did so, and passed Fletcher, who was wait-
ing for me, several times, and he did not recognise
me until I went up and spoke to him, and he then took
me to Mr. Barber's office in Bridge-street. Fletcher
introduced me to Barber as Miss Burchard, and I sat
down in the office for some time. Fletcher and Barber,
after conversing, left the office together, and after a short
time both returned. After a few minutes, Fletcher left,
and Barber took me to a Proctor,in Doctors' Commons,
where the will of Eliza Burchard was produced, to the
best of my recollection by Barber. The proctor, on
reading the will, observed that it must have been a
clever woman to write it. Barber replied, " Oh, co-
pied, copied, I dare say.) I was then taken before
some gentlemen, and had to make an affidavit. I was
not aware I should have to do so before I went. Some
questions were asked, and Mr. Barber answered them
all. I returned with Mr. Barber to his office. He
said he should want me again, and would write to let
me know when. Fletcher and Barber seemed to un-
derstand each other very well, and it was quite ob-
vious that all the papers it was necessary to have were
in readiness before my arrival at Barber's office. I
went subsequently to the Bank of England with Mr.
Barber, and wrote the name of Eliza Burchard in
several books. Barber identified me as Miss Burchard
He was the only person who accompanied me, either
to the Commons or the Bank, through the whole busi-
ness. The money was obtained. It was paid over
in my assumed name of Eliza Burchard to Ba'rber. I
cannot say what he did with the money. When I re-
ceived it from him, Fletcher was waiting for me. I gave
him the money, and he went to my home with me. He
had a pen and ink, and made a calculation of what he
considered due to me. After deducting the expenses
and five per cent. for the Bank clerk, he gave me be- _
tween six and seven hundred pounds, which he said
was half the sum left. The other half he said was
his. Barber's account was made out at the time he
paid me the money. Fletcher previously told me to
pay Barber, and give him 51. more than the amount
of his bill for hastening the business . I acted on
everything as Fletcher directed me. A few days
after the settlement, Fletcher told me that Barber had
kept more money than was sufficient to pay the duty,
and as it was proposed that Mrs. Fletcher should
accompany me to Bristol, Fletcher said I had better
write to Barber from there about it, which I did, and
he (Barber) remitted the difference of amount by
post-office order. It was about 41. I gave Fletcher
two sovereigns. I have never had any communica-
tion with Barber since, nor ever seen him until
I was at the Mansion-house. I think it was
previously to my going to Bristol Fletcher
changed some Bank notes for me at the Bank of
England, and brought me gold for them in a small
canvass bag. He brought it to me on London-bridge,
where I was waiting for him. I put the money into
my own bag with some sovereigns I had in it, and
took it all to the London and 'Westminster Bank,
near the bridge, where I invested it in my own name.
The money was in a velvet bag, and the clerk ob-
served it was not many ladies' bags were so rich. I
cannot speak with accuracy as to dates, but to the
best of my recollection this occurred three years ago.
I afterwards withdrew the money from the London
and Westminster Bank, and placed it in the Bank of
England, where I had previously purchased stock to
the amount of 3501., in the New Three-and-a-Half
Reduced Annuities. Philpots was the name of the
broker employed by me. Fletcher introduced me to
him. Some time after my mother's death my sister
from Bristol visited me while I was living in Dean-
street. She visited the Fletchers, for, I think, the first
time. Mr. Fletcher came to my lodgings to see
her, and at his request I took a lodging in
Museum-street, for a Miss Cole. He said she was
a lady coming free the country that he was going to
do business for at the Bank. I was to charge
particularly the person who let me the lodgings to be
careful of all letters that might be brought there for
Miss Cole.- The same day I took the lodging my
sister and myself met Fletcher, by appointment,.in St.
Paul's Church-yard. We went into an office near
there, where I signed the name of Jane Blake, ac-
cording as Fletcher told me to do. Ido not remem-
ber or not whether my sister wrote. This is all, to
the best of my recollection, that I know or did know
concerning anything that might have been done.
Some time after this, Fletcher having observed that a
young gentleman was paying his addresses to me,
spoke to me on the subject. Mrs. Fletcher had then
been dead some thirteen months. Three months
after her decease, he intimated a partiality he felt for
rne, and had for many years. Soon after this lie met
the gentlemast he was fearful I liked at my house,
and the following day wrote me a strong letter
on the subject (I having told Fletcher previously
that the gentleman was only a friend, and that I was
anxious to retain his friendship, as we had known
each other for many years, and he had been a favourite
of my mother's), in which letter he said it was useless
for me to say the gentleman in question, whom he
saw at my house, was only a friend, for it was well
known that when a young gentleman frequently visits
a young lady, it must be for some purpose, either ho-
nourable or dishonourable. If the first, why did I
deny it ? , If the second, the sooner such visits were
discontinued the better. I mention here the contents
of this letter sent to me •by Fletcher, because I gave
it to three or four of my acquaintances to read, and
it being sealed with.the same impression as that found.
by Forrester at my house, they might probably re-
member it. The letter, with others, I unfortunately
destroyed previous to my marriage with Mr. Dorey.
During the time my sister was in business at the
Pantheon, Mrs. Fletcher went with me to see her
there, and purchased two seals precisely the same.
She kept one herself, and gave the other to me.
Fletcher was at variance with me because I
expressed such indignance at the letter he had
sent me. Some time after this my brother-in-
law, Mr. Saunders, came from Bristol ; he was
angry with me for refusing to accept Mr. Fletcher.
Mr. Saunders visited Fletcher, and talked to him on
the subject, saying it was injudicious of him to pro-
pose to me at a time when I was so grievously
afflicted by the loss of my mother, and he having so
recently lost his wife; therefore, Fletcher came again
to see me. It must have been about this time that
Mr. Saunders said he should like to see Miss -, an
acquaintance of mine. He saw her two or three
times, and talked to her. He did not sleep at my
house, as was his usual custom, but was lodging near
Hungerford Market. I met him one day, and he
told me he was thinking of calling on Miss --,
Hunt.
get her to sign the paper he had in his hand.i
looked at it, and found it to be the will of Mary f unti.
I talked to Miss -- about the gentleman, m3:el y l
for friend
(meaning Fletcher), and said it was veryh lei.l
e
might be able to get some money r..
She
signed the will. I took it after she hadcodmomneenstoed so, and
looked at what she had written, and
her not h avingshe written
replied, her own
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Mary Hunt.
do as well. I returned it again to Saunders,
and never heard anything more about it. What I
state here is all the knowledge I have, or ever had,
in the matter. I lent Mr. Saunders 401. or 501.
when he first came up from Bristol, and he repaid
me before he went home. Both he and Fletcher
were angry with me, therefore they:were not commu-
nicative with me as to what they were doing.
Fletcher again urged his suit, and I repulsed him,
upon which he said he must know, once for all, whe-
ther I would receive him as my future husband or
not. On my determined refusal of him, he said he
would never again be on terms of friendship with
me, nor give me his advice, as he had hitherto done.
From that time, up to January, 1843, I neither saw
nor heard anything of him, only that he was married,
and had visited Mr. and Mrs. Saunders at Bristol.
I was married to Mr. Dorey in the month of Fe-
bruary following, and living at N 0.45, Oxford-street.
At that time my sister was visiting me. I
think about March (I cannot speak with certainty
to the exact time) Mr. Fletcher called at my
residence to see my sister. He came, I think, twice.
On one occasion of his coming I remained in the
room with him and my sister some minutes. lie said
to my sister, " I hope you will soon get it done"'
My sister replied, she did not know what to o
about it, as she was such a bad hand at writing.._
Fletcher said, " Perhaps your sister do., it
or
you." I asked what it was, and he said,
i
writing." I immediately replied,:o‘olmw. would
ddosamalel
she required," and then left t
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it to Mr;Dorey. She did not tell me any thing about it.
On one occasion of Mr. Fletcher visiting my sister at
my house in Oxford-street, I heard him say to' her
she must lose no time in going to Bath. She said to
my husband she had occasion to go there on business,
but would return to town again, and that she would
pay my expenses, if he had no objection for me to go
with her. He assented, and we went. We slept in
Bath one night, and the following morning called at
his offices, one near the York House and the other
Pear the Abbey Church-yard. My sister inquired