6o        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.

        Liber FF Wee the Jury abouesaid hauing ueiwed the Corps of Samuell
               Youngman & findeing a depression in the Craneum in one place and
               another wound where all the musculous flesh was Corrupted and
               wthall finding Corrupted blood betweene the dura mater the pia
               mater & the braines, besides seuerall other bruses both in the head
               and the body, therefore or uerdict is that for want of Carefull looking
               after the aforesd Wounds in the head were the Cause of his death
                                       Tho: Goddard Chir. foreman

                The deposition of Henry Wharton aged 24 yeares or thereabouts
               sworne & examined saith
                That being att Fran: Carpenters howse that day that his seruant
               samuell youngman was buried yor Depont saw the said Carpenter lay
               him out and tye his toes, and when he was soe doeing hee saw one
               of his Eares bleed, and yor depont asked how his Eare came to
               bleed, and the said Carpenter answered that he had giuen him a philip
               on the Eare and he said that the boy had a dizeness in the head that
               caus'd him to haue such falls whereby he killed himself e, and yor
               depont askt him wether he were troubled wth tht dizeness before the
               said Carpenter had broke his head and he said that he had it long
               before & further saith notHen: wharton H his marke
               Juratr Coram Curia Ta!bottVera Copie Tho: Vaughan Clk.
                  20mo March 1666

          [p. 290] february 20th 1665
                The deposition of Edward Fuller aged 25 yeares or thereabouts
               sworne & examined at a Court held 20th March 1665 saith
                That about 5 weekes agoe yor depont coming to the howse of
               Francis Carpenter, found his seruant Samuell Youngman bleeding in
               the head, and asked the said Carpenter how his serut came to haue
               his head broke in that nature, for to bleed soe much, (for yor depont
               came to the howse about sunn sett & the seruts head Continued bleed-
               ing while 2 houres wthin night and a man that liued in the howse told
               yor depont that he had bled about an hour before sunn sett) and the
               said Carpenter told your depont that he did beat him, and the boy
               stooping downe broke his head wth a rotten stick, and the next morn-
               ing yor dept being dressing of the seruants head, and hauing cleansed
               the wound found the skull bare, and about 3 weaks after comming
               to the howse againe yor dept found the aforesaid seruant setting upon
               the morter, and presently he fell downe to the ground not being able
               to eate any food (being profferd to him) and yor dept saw that his
               face was all bloody & tooke a Cloth and made it Cleane, and in soe
               doeing yor dept found that his head did skinck uery much and told
               the said Carpenter of it, and he made answere that he had that day
               giuen him a blow on the eare a small stick and that same night