_Fountain_ told me that he pulled hard at the teeth, which resisted, until some one hit them a knock with a stone, when they easily came out. There were but five in the upper jaw, which were all perfectly sound and white, and all taken by Mr. _Fountain_; he gave one of them to Mr. _Laming_; Mr. _Laming_ also took one from the lower jaw; and Mr. _Taylor_ took two from it. Mr. _Laming_ told me that he had, at one time, a mind to bring away the whole under-jaw, with the teeth in it; he had it in his hand, but tossed it back again. Also that he lifted up the head, and saw a great quantity of hair, which lay straight and even behind the head, and in the state of hair which had been combed and tied together before interment; but it was wet, the coffin having considerable corroded holes, both at the head and foot, and a great part of the water with which it had been washed on the Tuesday afternoon having run into it. The overseers and Mr. _Taylor_ went away soon afterwards, and Messrs. _Laming_ and _Taylor_ went home to get scissors to cut off some of the hair: they returned about ten, when Mr. _Laming_ poked his stick against the head, and brought some of the hair over the forehead; but, as they saw the scissors were not necessary, Mr. _Taylor_ took up the hair, as it lay on the forehead, and carried it home. The water, which had got into the coffin on the Tuesday afternoon, had made a sludge at the bottom of it, emitting a nauseous smell, and which occasioned Mr. _Laming_ to use his stick to procure the hair, and not to lift up the head a second time. Mr. _Laming_ also took out one of the leg-bones, but threw it in again. _Holmes_ went out of church, whilst Messrs. _Laming_, _Taylor_, and _Fountain_ were there the first time, and he returned when the two former were come the second time. When Messrs. _Laming_ and _Taylor_ had finally quitted the church, the coffin was removed from the edge of the excavation back to its original station; but was no otherwise closed than by the lid, where it had been cut and reversed, being bent down again. Mr. _Ascough_, the clerk, was from home the greater part of that day, and Mrs. _Hoppey_, the sexton, was from home the whole day. Elizabeth _Grant_, the grave-digger, who is servant to Mrs. _Hoppey_, therefore now took possession of the coffin; and, as its situation under the common-councilmen’s pew would not admit of its being seen without the help of a candle, she kept a tinder-box in the excavation, and, when any persons came, struck a light, and conducted them under the pew, where, by reversing the part of the lid which had been cut, she exhibited the body, at first for sixpence, and afterwards for threepence and twopence each person. The workers in the church kept the doors locked to all those who would not pay the price of a pot of beer for entrance, and many, to avoid that payment, got in at a window at the west end of the church, near to Mr. _Ascough’s_ counting-house.