Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. 501

Blowe caused an Impostum to breed in the small of his back and it
was broken inwardly yo^r depon^t sayth that he mayn .... to her
Mistres face, But she .... Kick with her foote And .... day there
being .... he at night Yo^r depon^t could not sleepe, and in the night
she felt her Bedd shake and being Scared that the hare of her head
stood right vp an End, not knowing the reason she lookt out of her
bed and she sawe Thomas Watson standing by her bedside in the
same likenes he was in in his prosperity, she sayd Lord haue mercy
upon me and he gaue a Screeke and went his way And yo^r depon^t
further sayth that the said Watson being turning the Spitt some
three weekes before he dyed the fyre being something hott Soe that
he could not Turne for the heate thereof, with that yo^r depon^ts
Master pulld him out of the Corner and struck him soe violently
with his hand on the Brest and face that the blood issued out of his
mouth and nose Yo^r depon^t shewed the blood on the Ground to
Thomas Southerne And yo^r depon^t Sayth that two or three dayes
before the said Watson dyed he did absolutely Say that his Master
and M^rs was the cause of his death And yo^r depon^t Sayth that she
John White and Thomas Southerne was discourseing of the said
Watson and how he should tell them that his Master and Mistres was
his death and that their M^rs ouer heard th^m and that she came to
them and scoulded at them, but they denyed what they sayd and she
went in and tould their Master what they sayd And he came to John
White and asked him if yo^r depon^t sayd any such thing And the sayd
White denyed he heard her say any such thing And their Master
made Answere yo^u say soe to saue her abasted Coate but she shall
haue it for all that And yo^r depon^t sayth that Thomas Watson was
in perfect sence and memory to the last night of life
Sarah [mark] Tayler
her marke

The depⁿ of Thomas Southerne aged twenty yeares or thereabouts
sworne and examined in Co^rt the 17^th of July 1660
Yo^r depon^t sayth that Thomas Watson in tyme of his sicknes had

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very bad usage which was not fitt for a Christean in his weake
condicon yo^r depon^t .... Charged him that .... not any Sustenance
att all But was forst to drinke his owne water and the seauenth day
he came into the howse houlding by the Pallasadoes like a young
Child Yo^r depon^t sayth that he heard the said Watson tell John
White that his M^rs had struck him over the small of the back with a
Cowle staff which would be his death Yo^r depon^t sayth that he and
the said Watson and John White went out to Cutt wood and in
pipeing their Master came and asked them if that was their worke
and takeing the said Watson to falling of a Hiccory tree and while
he was falling the tree, He Cutt a Hicckory stick and beate the said
Watson many a Stripe John White standing by sayd he counted the

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