the Door and the deced alive in Bed, who complaind
he was very bad, and Dept. gave him some drink
says they all assisted (except the Father) in taking
the deced out of Bed and making the same, says
the Father was unwilling, saying the deced did not
know what be would, for that he had done it
himself, but the bed had not been made. says She
and the other two Women Stayed by the deced some
time, says the deced told Dept. that his Father
had thrown him out of Bed and into it again three
or four times, says she is positive he was then
sensible butsaysthe deced did not charge his Father
with doing him any Injury by throwing him out &
into the Bed, nor did Deponent see any Bruises then
about the deced. says deced desired Deponent not to
leave him and she continued with him for a quarter of an
hour after, and Dept. and the Women went down
together, but before she went down Stairs, the deced asked
who laid with [..] your Boy (meaning as Dept. understood
an apprentice of her Husband's) to which she replyed
why did be ask that Question, and he answered he
should be glad to lay along with him; to which she
said it would be inconvient, and she did not know
where be could lay better than [..] th his Father, says
he told Deponent that his Father would Smother him
to which Dept. said God forbid Matt., and be replyed
he will, he will, says deced spoke so low the in Sure
nobody in the Room could hear him besides Dept.
who was close to the deced and attentive to his discourse
says upon her going away he desired she would not leave
him,saysthat when the came down Stair she immediately
informed her Sister and Mr. Chambers one of the Women
who went with dept. in to deceds Room, what the deced
had said to her. says that about eleven that Night the
sent James Kentish< no role > and Thomas House< no role > two of her
Husbands apprentices to see how the deced did,saysthat they
returned in about a quarter of an hour, and acquainted
dept. that deced was very bad and sweating by the Bed Cloaths
being put too much over his Face, and that deced begged
of them to remove them,but thewhich they did, and
the Father returned them again as they were before
the deceds Complaint, saying he did not know
what he would be at, says She did not go up again
to deced till between twelve and one o' Clock the
Next Morning, when she heard Somebody come in
doors when it proved to be Mr. Moore with a lighted
Candle in his Hand, altho' she had been informed
before by the said apprentices that they left him
when they came down Stairs in Bed with his Son
the deced, says She immediately took a Candle and
followed Mr. Moore up stairs to his Room that before he
opened the Door She asked him how his Son did,
he said he was well enough, she asked him what
he meant by him, he replyed he was very happy,
she asked him there if he was dead, and he answered
he was says she stood at the Room door but did not go in
and after Sending for her Sister [..] Deponent her
Sister and the two Apprentices went into the Room
and discovered the decedfoin the Middle of the Bed
folded up in the Bed Cloaths viz: two Blankets and a Quilt entirely covered that they were
some minutes before they could get him out and
on taking deced out they observed the right Side of
his Face near the right Temple his right Shoulder and right Hip bruised
but no Cuts wounds or Blood says the deceds face
did not appear to be black nor did be appear
black about the throat or else where except where they saw
the Bruised. Says that Dept. and her Sister helped to
lay the deced strait, says they continued in the
Room till the two Women who lodged in the House
Mrs Chamber and Mrs Oker house came into the
Room and by their Assistance Dept. and her Sister
removed the Feather bed, and laid the deced upon
the sacking, by this time she believes it might be
two o' Clock, says the Father was all the while in
the Room, says She & her Sister washed the deced and
her Husband coming home at the above time she
prevailed on him to go up Stairs and see the Corpse
that on her Husbands observing the Bruised he asked