I saw the deceased, and my heart ached for him. THE RECORDER--Who was it put the centinel upon sir John? T. COURT--The captain ordered it to be done. VERNON--Is it usual to place a centinel at the purser's cabin-door? T. COURT--No, it is not; unless there be somebody there under confinement. VERNON--Is there any other cabin near the purser's? T. COURT--Yes, there is the slop-room just by; there the cooper and his wife lay that night: there is just a little partition of about half-inch deal, parting the slop-room from the place where sir John lay confined. VERNON--Pray, will you tell us whether any and what discourse passed between Mr. Goodere and you, about sailing, and when it was? T. COURT--Sir, in the morning he asked me, Will the wind serve to sail? He said, he had another pressing letter from the lords of the admiralty to sail as soon as possible. I told him that the wind was west-south-west, and that we could not go out to sea; for no pilot would take charge of the ship I believed. And as this is a harbour where a pilot is allowed, I don't pass for this place; otherwise I must have observed his orders. VERNON--Did he acquaint you how far or to what part, he would have you sail? T. COURT--Yes, he said, if he got no further than the Holmes, he did not care; and asked me if it was safe riding there. I told him it was not; for it was foul ground for such a ship as ours. THE RECORDER--Mr. Goodere, will you ask this witness any questions? GOODERE--What cabins are there in the cock-pit? T. COURT--I know no cabins there but the purser's cabin and the slop-room, etc. VERNON--Call Mr. Williams. _William Williams_ produced a watch which he had found in a vault in Back Street. Culliford, who kept the Brockware Boat on the Back, had reported at the Council House, when he was examined there, that a watch and some money had been left at his house; but his wife, when asked for them, denied the watch, but afterwards admitted that she had thrown it into the vault where the witness afterwards found it. _T. Court_ said that the captain had had a watch like the one produced. In answer to Goodere, he said that there were in the cockpit the steward's room, the purser's cabin, and the slop-room. The ship had been moored on Thursday the 15th of January. When Sir John was murdered she lay in the King Road; the witness then described the position of the ship with greater detail. _Vernon_ interposed to state that the ship was in the King Road, which was well known to be within the franchise of the city: the sheriffs of the city continually executed writs there; and such a serious matter ought not to be decided on a side wind.