State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
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State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
Trials -- Great Britain
YOUNG--Not by him in person. Between five and six o'clock some
of the men that came into my yard to work, told me a woman was
drowned at the mill; I staid a little and went down to see, and
when I came there, I saw a woman, as they had told me, and I
saw part of her coat lie on the top of the water to be seen,
and I looked strictly and nicely within the bridge and saw the
face of a woman, and her left arm was on the outside the
stakes, which I believe kept her from going through; so I
looked upon her very wishfully, and was going back again; and
as I came back I met with R. Dew and two of my neighbours, and
they asked me to go back with them, and said they were going to
take her up; and being constable, I told them I thought it was
not proper to do it, and they said they had orders for it; so I
being constable went back with them, and when I came there I
found her in the same posture as before; we viewed her very
wishfully; her coat that was driven near the stakes was seen,
but none of her coats, or her legs; and after we had looked a
little while upon her, we spake to Dell and Ulse to take her
up, and one of them took hold of her coat till he brought her
above water; and as her arm drew up, I saw a black place, and
she laid sideway, that he could not take her up till they had
let her down again, and so they twisted her out sideway; for
the stakes were so near together that she could not lie upon
her belly, or upon her back; and when they had taken her up,
they laid her down upon a green place, and after she was laid
down, a great quantity of froth (like the froth of new beer)
worked out of her nostrils.
HATSELL, BARON--How much do you call a great quantity?
YOUNG--It rose up in bladders, and run down on the sides of her
face, and so rose again; and seeing her look like a
gentlewoman, we desired one Ulse to search her pockets, to see
if there were any letters, that we might know who she was; so
the woman did, and I believe there was twenty or more of us
that knew her very well when she was alive, and not one of us
knew her then; and the woman searched her pockets, and took out
six guineas, ten shillings, three pence halfpenny, and some
other things; and after that I desired some of my neighbours to
go with me and tell the money; for when it came to be known who
she was, I knew we must give an account on it, and I laid it
upon a block and told it, and they tyed it up in a
handkerchief, and I said I would keep the money, and they
should seal it up to prevent any question about it; and during
all this while of discourse, and sealing up the money, the
froth still worked out of her mouth.
COWPER--Have you measured the depth of the water? What depth is
it there?
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