·446 to keepe all this equipage at Deale while they ·sent to tlie secretal'y for another order, which tbey got directed to the liefterrant in 'the absence of the captaine, and assoone as it came deliver'd it to him, who immediately suffer'd them to take away the body, which they did at that bower, though it was night, fearing a further -dispute with Freeman. For he, after the body had bene ten dayes embalm'd, sayd he would ·have a iury empannell'd, and a coroner to sitt upon it, to see whether he died a naturall death. Mr. Hutchinson ask'd him why he urg'd that, when it lay on their side to have sought satisfaction. He sayd he must doe it to cleare the king's garrison. Mr. I-lutchinson told him he had slipt his ~ime; it should have bene done at the first, before the embalming. He say~d :he would have ·it unlapt, and accordingly he sent for a coroner and a inry, who when they came would not unlap the body, but call'd those persons that were about him, and examin'd them as to the occasion of ·his death. They made affidavit, which remains yet upon record, that the doctor sayd the place had kill'd him, and satisfied with this, they did not unlap the body. As it came inte 'Deale Freeman mett it, and sayd, if he had bene in the castle they should not have had it till they had pay'd the mony he demanded; which when he could not iustifie any right to by any law, he fell · to begg most basely and unworthily, but neither had aniething given him for that. I-l01vever though the secretary had alsoe order'd the collonell should have his things out, yet he detein'd all he found in the castle, his trunkes, and beds, and furniture, which could never be gotten out of his hands. Although this spite of his pnt the collonell's famely to an excessive charge in staying so long in that cut-throat towne of Deale; yet there was a providence of the Lord in it; for the collonell's daughter that .was there through gr.ief had contracted a violent sicknesse, which too~e her with greate extremity, and wrought of of her stomack in black vomit~, that made her for the present desperately ill, and the doctor that was with her "sayd
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