A. Yes.

Q. Had the person who you say was this gentleman gone into the parlour before you went up stairs?

A. Yes he had.

Q. I take for granted when you came down stairs and Mr. Wright got the paper you did not go in again?

A. No; he wished me gone, and I did not go in again.

Q. Then altogether, except for seeing him for five minutes in the passage, and you going into the parlour for the short time you did, and afterwards when you saw him in the post chaise, and when he offered the postboys a Napoleon each you did not see him?

A. No.

Q. You had nothing to do personally with this inn called the Ship?

A. No, I keep the Packet Boat opposite.

Q. Do you know whether there had been a large company at the Ship Inn that day?