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       between break faste and Dinner time, And farther this Exam- Liber B.

       inat Sayeth (being demanded why he fled into Virginia) that No. 3.

       he fled thither to put himself into the Custody of Some in

       Authority there, that there he might have his tryall Concern-

       ing the Death of the Said Gouge in Respect the Government

       of this Province is not Settled, and upon Some Experience he

       this Examinat had of his hard usage by those in Authority

       here in this Province, And farther this Examinat desireth that p. 327

       the Corps of the Said Gouge may be taken up and againe

       Viewed, And that one Nicholas Oliver may be brought to

       Examination, whom this Examinat accuseth for beating the

       Said Gouge one weeke before he was found Dead

                                        Signu m

       This Examination taken the 14th of John x Dandy

       August 1657. Rich: Preston

                          Will: Ewens

         Walter Peake aged fortie nine yeares or thereabouts Sworne

       and Examined in open Court Sayth, that about the last Spring

       being at the mill, did See a poor lame boy of Dandys, who

       Seemed to be much abused, with pinches about his Eares, and

       this Deponent asked the Said Boy whether lie lay in the mill

       where there was no Come, tht the ratts Eat off his Eares, the

       Boy answered no, But that he had a wound in his head which

       was very troublesom unto him, the which wound this Depo-

       nent did Search andi found his Scull to be broken, Aterwards

       this Depont meeting with the wife of John Dandy at the house

       of Iohn Shircliffe and telling her of this, She told this Depont

       that her husband had done it two months before with the pole

       of an Axe, And farther the Said Dandy his wife Said that She

       had taken two pieces of the Scull out of his head.

                                        Walter Peake

         Major John Hollowes aged fortie one yeares or thereabout

       Sworne and Examined in open Court Sayth that when John

       Dandy Came over Patomack River to this Deponents house,

       This Deponent and the Said Dandy did go to the house of mr

       Bradhorst, and when I this Deponent and the Said Dandy

       Came there, the Said Dandy did Say that it was reported that

       he the Said Dandy had killed his man Harry a weeke before

       he did kill him And that he had Escaped away, and was Come

       to put himself upon a Tryall in Virginia a Concerning the

       Death of his Said Servant Jo: Hallowes