he was gone to carry the letter, and staid about a quarter of an hour longer, and came down, and he was gone and she; and Mrs. Stout the mother asked me the reason why he went out when I was warming his bed? and she asked me for my mistress, and I told her I left her with Mr. Cowper, and I never saw her after that nor did Mr. Cowper return to the house. She sat up all night; she next saw Sarah Stout when she had been taken out of the water the next morning. On being pressed, she was certain that it was a quarter after eleven by their clock when Cowper left the house; their clock was half an hour faster than the town clock. COWPER--Pray, what account did you give as to the time before my lord chief-justice Holt? WALKER--I gave the account that it was eleven, or quarter of an hour after. COWPER--In her depositions there is half an hour's difference; for then she said it was half an hour after ten. HATSELL, BARON--Which clock was earliest, yours or the town clock? WALKER--Ours was half an hour faster than theirs. COWPER--How came you to know this? WALKER--By reason that dinner was dressed at the cook's, and it was ordered to be ready by two o'clock, and it was ready at two by the town clock, and half an hour after two by ours. COWPER--When you came down and missed your mistress, did you enquire after her all that night? WALKER--No, Sir, I did not go out of the doors; I thought you were with her, and so I thought she would come to no harm. COWPER--Here is a whole night she gives no account of. Pray, mistress, why did not you go after her? WALKER--My mistress would not let me. COWPER--Why would she not let you? WALKER--I said I would see for her? No, saith she, by reason if you go and see for her, and do not find her, it will make an alarm over the town, and there may be no occasion. COWPER--Did your mistress use to stay out all night? WALKER--No, never. COWPER--Have not you said so? WALKER--I never said so in my life. COWPER--Pray, Mrs. Walker, did you never take notice that your mistress was under melancholy? WALKER--I do not say but she was melancholy; she was ill for some time; and I imputed it to her illness, and I know no other cause. COWPER--Have you not often told people that your mistress was a melancholy person, upon your oath? WALKER--I have said she hath been ill, and that made her melancholy.