Young—Yes; twenty people at the least.
Jones—Now here is ten of them that have sworn that the body was above the surface of the water.
Hatsell, Baron—No, her cloaths, they say, were, but the body was something under the water.
Cowper—Now I will trouble your lordship no more with that fact, but I will give you an account of the coroner's inquest, how diligent they were in their proceedings, and produce a copy of the inquisition itself, that she was found to have drowned herself.
Hatsell, Baron—Mr. Cowper, that is no evidence if it be produced in order to contradict what these witnesses have said, that have been examined for the king; but if you will prove that they have sworn otherwise before the coroner than they now do, then you say something, otherwise the coroner's inquest signifies nothing as to the present question.
Cowper—Call Thomas Wall. I am loth to be troublesome; but, if you please to favour me, I desire to know of them whether they do admit there was an inquisition, and that she was found non compos mentis and did kill herself.
Jones—We do admit it.
Juryman—We desire it may be read.
Hatsell, Baron—Why, will not you believe what they agree to on both sides?
Juryman—If they do agree so, I am satisfied.