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 Q. Was you sent for by Lady Boughton?

A. I was sent for to my lady, by the other maid, Sarah Blundell, who is dead. I was called up stairs into that room where Sir Theodosius lay.

Q. When you came into the room in what situation was Sir Theodosius Boughton?

A. He did not stir hand or foot, but frothed at his mouth. I wiped the froth four or five times from his mouth.

Q. Was the body motionless?

A. The stomach heaved very much.

Q. Was there any noise?

A. He guggled at the throat.

Q. Give an account of any other circumstances that you observed?

A. I did not observe any thing more.

Q. Where did you go to from thence?

A. I went below stairs about my work. My work lay below stairs.

Q. How long afterwards was it before you saw Mr. Donellan?

A. It might be about a quarter of an hour. I saw him in the passage. Mr. Donellan said, Sir Theodosius was out very late over night a fishing, that it was very silly of him, as he had been taking such physick as he had been taking of, before time.

Q. That is before that time?

A. Yes.

Q. Did he give any reason why he had been out so late a fishing?

A. No.

Q. Did he say any thing more at that time?

A. Not to the best of my knowledge.

Q. Did you see Mr. Donellan the day that the body was opened?

A. Yes.

Q. What did Mr. Donellan say at that time?

A. He said there was nothing the matter, that it was a