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had accomplished, having all along determined in his own breast rather
to die himself than suffer any harm to be done to the prisoner.
°' His lordship expressed great satisfaction at this account; and af-
ter thanking him for it, and making this further stipulation, that in
case his lordship should survive him, he might then be at liberty to
relate this story, that it might be delivered down to posterity, the
conference broke up.
This juryman lived fifteen years afterwards; C. J. Dyer inquired
after him every year, and happening to survive him, delivered the
above relation."-1 Cowen 61 Hill's Notes to Phil. on.Ev., page 559,
last edition.
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