.
    This violent Uproar had raised all the People in the House; tho' it was yet
scarcely Day-light. Among these was a grave Gentleman, who had the Honour to be
in the Commission of the Peace for the County of Worcester. Of which Mr. Western
was no sooner informed, than he offered to lay his Complaint before him. The
Justice declined executing his Office, as he said he had no Clerk present, nor
no Book about Justice Business. And that he could not carry all the Law in his
Head about stealing away Daughters, and such Sort of Things.
    Here Mr. Fitzpatrick offered to lend him his Assistance; informing the
Company that he had been himself bred to the Law. (And indeed he had served
three Years as Clerk to an Attorney in the North of Ireland, when chusing a
genteeler Walk in Life, he quitted his Master, came over to England, and set up
that Business, which requires no Apprenticeship, namely, that of a Gentleman, in
which he had succeeded as hath been already partly mentioned).
    Mr. Fitzpatrick declared that the Law concerning Daughters was out of the
present Case; that stealing a Muff was undoubtedly Felony, and the Goods being
found upon the Person, were sufficient Evidence of the Fact.
    The Magistrate, upon the Encouragement of so learned a Coadjutor, and upon
the violent Intercession of the Squire, was at length prevailed upon to seat
himself in the Chair of Justice, where being placed, upon viewing the Muff which
Jones still held in his Hand, and upon the Parson's swearing it to be the
Property of Mr. Western, he desired Mr. Fitzpatrick to draw up a Commitment,
which he said he would sign.
    Jones now desired to be heard, which was at last, with Difficulty, granted
him. He then produced the Evidence of Mr. Partridge, as to the finding it; but
what was still more, Susan deposed that Sophia herself had delivered the Muff to
her, and had ordered her to convey it into the Chamber where Mr. Jones had found
it.
    Whether a natural Love of Justice, or the extraordinary Comeliness of Jones,
had wrought on Susan to make the Discovery, I will not determine; but such were
the Effects of her Evidence, that the Magistrate, throwing himself back in his
Chair, declared that the Matter was now altogether as clear on the Side of the
Prisoner, as it had before been against him; with which the Parson concurred,
saying, The Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent
Person to Durance. The Justice then
