have suffered him That the Deceased several times
Attempted to Come out But some One or Other always
forced him in again Saith he was not near enough to
hear whether the Deceased Said Any thing
That after the Deceased had been in the Water some Minutes
or near a Quarter of an hour some Man (who had by his
Dress the Appearence of a Grocer ) Pulled him Out
That when he was Out Informant went up to him and
saw a little Man Dressed in a Brown Coat throw a Piece
of Treddle Cord in a Loop over his Neck and some Other
Person Pulled the Cord and Pulled him down backwards
That he wasthenSitting on the Ground when the Cord was thrown on his Neck
That the Deceased rose up again almost Directly
upon his BreechAnd then a Middling Sized Man
came up And Looked at him and Said now Dis Your
Eyes Where is ChansetThat the Deceased Answered
Chanset is worse than meThat then some of them
Tied the Deceaseds Hands with a Piece of hard Cord and
threw him into the Water again as a Dog or a Cat
And [..] he then went in with his Head downwards and
his Backside upwards But by Degrees he soon got on
his Legs again in the Water And Put his Hands up to
his Month and got his Hands Loose that the Cord
remained on One WristThat then they Continued
to Pelt him as before with Bricks and Brick Cats
Many of which Hit his Head and Body
That after the Deceased had a Second time been in the
Water about an hour One Brick Hit him a Blow on
the Backside the Head from which Issued a very great
Quantity of BloodThat he stood on his Legs all