him I will dispatch the Villian with my sword’ that this roused him and determined him to sell his life as dear as he could--that ’till this time tho’ he had apprehended & experienced a great deal of violence, he did not think they intended to take away his life because he had seen Major Disney in the outer room & knowing he had done nothing to disoblige him, he did not believe that he would have been amongst them if they had intended to murther him--that he broke from the persons who held him in the window & advanced towards the Part of the room from whence the voice came where 2 persons were standing with their swords in a position ready for making a thrust at him, but does not know whether they actually made a Pass at him or not, that he put by one of their swords with his left hand upon which they both retreated into the corner--that his Eyes at this time being full of blood, he was not capable of distinguishing the features of a face with great accuracy, but from the size & figure & gesture of the person whose sword he parried & from whom he believes the words came, he thought it to be Major Disney--that several of them then seized him at once (one of them in particular taking him up under the right thigh) and carried him towards the fire place with the intention as he believed to throw him upon the fire--that the marks of his bloody fingers were upon the jamb of the chimney--that he turned himself from the fire with great violence & in turning received a blow on his head which the surgeons say must have been given with a Tomahawk--which felled him to the ground & after that a blow upon his Loins which he feels to this day--that then one of them sat or kneeled by him (he lying at his length upon the floor) andeavouring as he imagined to cut his throat--that he resisted it by inclining his head upon his shoulders & putting his hand to the place, a finger of which was cut to the bone--that it was a fortnight before he knew that he had lost his ear, his opinion all along having been that in that operation they intended to cut his throat & believed they had done it--that one of them said the Villian is dead, another Damn him we have done for him, and a third uttered some words but his senses then failed him & he does not recollect what they were._