Couns. for the Cr. Pray, Sir, can you give the Court any information relative to the number of persons that have been inoculated by the Prisoner and his assistants?
Dr. Baker. According to the best information that I can procure, about seventeen thousand have been thus inoculated, of which number no more than five or six have died.
Mr. B. Chandler sworn.
Couns. for the Cr. You, Sir, I think are a surgeon at Canterbury?
Mr. Chandler. I am.
Couns. for the Cr. Pray, Mr. Chandler, can you give us any information concerning the Prisoner’s success in the practice of inoculation?
Mr. Chandler. I know nothing of Mr. Sutton’s own particular practice, except from report. What I have to say relates only to that of one of his assistants, or partners.
President. This evidence cannot affect the Prisoner at the bar, as he tells you he knows nothing of Mr. Sutton’s own particular practice.
Couns. for the Cr. I beg your pardon, Mr. President, the Prisoner at the bar stands indicted for preserving the lives of the King’s subjects, not only by inoculating, but also causing to be inoculated.
President. Proceed to his examination.