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     in and when the goard was come Christopher gaue him to drinke Liber B B
     and he dranke and they tooke the Goard from him and he desired
     more drinke, And I said to my mastr yow haue kill'd this man for he
       is a dead man and hee said hang him Roage hee is a dissembling
       Roage and that he could not goe nor stand but Christopher & John
       Eds led him in—
       John Eds aged 19 yeares or thereabouts sworne That he saw his
     mastr Beate Thomas Simmons a ropes end and a knott att the end
       of it and that he went away from him and did not beate him long and
       that hee was not able to Come home for he hope to bring him home—
       Christopher Anderson aged 26 yeares or thereabouts That uppon
     satterday Thomas Simmons had been runn away and was come home
     and my Mast” told me that I must take a rope and tye him for to
     whip him wth a whipp of small whipp Cord and that he did whip him
     and after he was whipped he went into the feilde to weed and Came
     into breakfast and went out againe and the fellow not weeding well
     enough he beate him wth a rope that had a Knott att the end of it,
     and he beated him soe long untill he dropped downe to my thinking
     as dead and he beate him tell he rose againe, then my Mastr left him
     and went in and brought another hoe and a goard wth him and I gaue
     him some water he was not able to gett up but wth a little of my helpe
     he gott up and I told my mast” he was a dead man and he told me noe
     he was a dissembling Roage, and he tooke his rope out of his pockett
     & dub'd him againe I told my Mastr that he had kill'd him & he said
     Lord haue mercy uppon us hee would Cleere his handes of him as
     soon as he could, and I went to weeding and he call'd me to him for
     to helpe to bring him home the which I did the helpe of John
     Edds and I asked him how he did and he said uery ill his mast” had
     Kill'd him

       Susan Hunt aged 21 yeares or thereabouts sworne & examined [p. 380]
     saith this 15th day of July, that a munday last comming through the
     Come feilde Christopher Anderson asked this deponant whither she
     did not heare her mast” John Grammer threaten the death of Thomas
     Simmons and this deponant answered she did not, and this Chris
     topher said to me that if I were called I might say that I did heare
     my Mastr say soe, and as for the time that the said Thomas Simmons
     was a whipping that my Mastr was not there for my Mast” came to
     the quarter to bid the other seruant bring some water & salte to wash
     him wthall and when my mastr went back againe the said Christopher
     Ceased whipping of Thomas Simmons and when the said Christo
     pher came into breakfast my dame asked Christopher whether he
     were not sorry for what he had done and he answered noe he could
     haue giuen him tenn times more the marke of
       Sworne before us             Susan  Hunt
          Hugh Stanley
          Charles Brooke