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 Q. What quantity of blood was there in the stomach?

A. I did not measure it; I conclude about two pints; it lodged in the cavity of the thorax.

Q. Might not that occasion convulsions?

A. I do not know; but if I might be allowed to reason from analogy, I should conclude it would, for in all slaughtered animals, when the blood runs out from them in a full stream, they lie quiet, but they never die without convulsions. The loss of blood will evidently occasion convulsions.

Mr. Wheeler. From the appearances of the body, and after the evidence you have heard given both by Lady Boughton and the other witnesses, what do you attribute this gentleman's death to?

A. After having heard Lady Boughton's evidence, and therefore being acquainted with the symptoms which preceded the death of Sir Theodosius Boughton, I am clearly of opinion that his death was occasioned by a poisonous draught administered to him by Lady Boughton on the morning of his death.

Court. Is the heaving in the stomach or the belly a circumstance which attends an epilepsy?

A. It is not.

Dr. Ashe sworn. Examined by Mr. Geast.

Q. You are a Physician and live at Birmingham?

A. Yes.

Q. You have heard the evidence that has been given?

A. I have.

Q. What in your judgment was the cause of the death of Sir Theodosius Boughton?

A. I think he died in consequence of taking that draught, after the taking of which he was seized in so extraordinary a manner.

Q. Mention the particular reasons you have for thinking so?

A. It does not appear, from any part of the evidence that has been this day given, that the late Sir Theodosius had any disease upon him of a nature either likely or in a degree suf