**The examination of the said William Harwich, taken the day and year abovesaid,
WHO sayeth and confesseth, that he, this examinant, on Monday was seventh night, about two of the clock in the afternoon, this examinant was walking in a Close, betwixt Cawood and Wistow; and he farther sayeth, that he threw his said wife into the pond, where she was drowned, and the day following, towards the evening, got a hay-spade at a hay-stake in the said Close, and made a grave beside the said pond, and buried her.
WILLIAM BARWICK.
"Exam. capt. die & Anno super dict, coram me,"
S. DAWSON, Mayor.
**The examination of William Barwick, taken the twenty- fifth day of
April, 1690,
WHO sayeth and confesseth, that he carried his wife over a certain wain-bridge, called Bishopdike-bridge, betwixt Cawood and Sherborne, and within a lane about one hundred yards from the said bridge, and on the left hand of the said bridge, he and his wife went over a stile, on the left hand of a certain gate, entering into a certain close, on the left hand of the said lane; and in a pond in the said close, (adjoining to a quick-wood-hedge) did drown his wife, and upon the bank of the said pond, did bury her: and further, that he was within sight of Cawood Castle, on the left hand; and that there was but one hedge betwixt the said close, where he drowned his said wife, and the Bishop-slates belonging to the said castle.
WILLIAM BARWICK "Exam. capt. die & Anno super dict, coram me,"
S. DAWSON, Mayor.
**On Tuesday, September the seventeenth, 1690, at York assizes.