538Court and Testamentary Business, 1657.

         Liber B. is Dandy beating of poor Harry now And to this Deponents

          No. 3. knowledge the Said Gouge was never Seen after that time till

              he was taken out of the water Dead And farther this Depo

             nent Sayth not            Signum

                                Darbey x Canneday

               Thomas Carpenter aged fiftie one yeares or thereabouts

              Sworne and Examined in open Court Saith that he was one of

              the Neighbours who Viewed the Corps of Henry Gouge, after

              that it was brought upon the Shoare, which was about the 7th

          of Inly, and that the Corps aforesaid had Some Signes in the

              back of Some blowes, made the Corps Somewhat black

              and blew about the Shoulders but it did Seem to this Depo-

              nents best Judgment, that the Said blowes were given with a

              Small Switch, Farther this Depont Sayth that the Said Gouge

              Servant to Iohn Dandy, had an old Soare or Scar on his head

              which bled a fresh when this Depont with the Said Dandy and

              the rest of the Neighbours did help to turne the Said Corps,

              And Likewise this Deponent Sayth that at the Said time, the

              Said Corps did bleed at the nose, and was Somwhat more

              black then ordinary about the face, and very Little or nothing

              Swell'd farther this Depont Sayth that the Said Gouge was

              not Seen to Void any manner of way any the least quantitie

              of water, and that the Sd Gouge was found naked, and that

              the men which belonged to John Dandy did make diligent

              Search after the Cloathes of the Said Servant, but could not

              find his Cloathes, nor discover any Signe of his footsteps, and

              that the Cloathes of the Said Servant are yet unfound, farther

              this Deponent Sayth that the wife of the Said Dandy, did upon

              a Certaine time Since the death of the Said Dandy his Ser-

              vant, tell this Deponent that her husband had often told her

              before, that his mind gave him, that he Should be hang'd for

              him the Said Gouge Some time or other, Farther this Depont

              Saith that the maid Servant of the Said Dandy told this Dc-

              pont that thT Soare which the Sd Gouge had given him by his

              master in the head was above one Inch Deep, and given him

              about two months before with an Axe. Farther this [)eponent

              Sayth that on the Same day in which the Said Gouge was

              missing he this Deponent did hear Darbey Canneday Servant

              to the Said Dandy Say, that he the Said Darbey did hear the

              Sd Gouge Crye out O Lord! O Lord! near upon twenty times,

              And that Dandy was beating of Harry. Farther this Deponent

              in his Conscience verily believeth, that the Said Gouge Came

              not to his Death by Drownding, And farther this Depont Saith

             not                            Tho: Carpender

               Ann Dandy wife to John Dandy aged thirty four yeares or

              thereabout Sworne and Examined in open Court Sayeth That