Joseph Carnaby.
“I did not see the carcass, man’s or beast’s, may it please your worship, and I have recited and can recite that only which I saw and heard. After the words of lugging out and breaking it, knives were drawn accordingly. It was no time to loiter or linger. We crope back under the shadow of the alders and hazels on the high bank that bordereth Mickle Meadow, and, making straight for the public road, hastened homeward.”
Sir Thomas.
“Hearing this deposition, dost thou affirm the like upon thy oath, Master Euseby Treen, or dost thou vary in aught essential?”
Euseby Treen.
“Upon my oath I do depose and affirm the like, and truly the identical same; and I will never more vary upon aught essential.”
Sir Thomas.
“I do now further demand of thee whether thou knowest anything more appertaining unto this business.”
Euseby Treen.
“Ay, verily; that your worship may never hold me for timorsome and superstitious, I do furthermore add that some other than deer-stealers was abroad. In sign whereof, although it was the dryest and clearest night of the season, my jerkin was damp inside and outside when I reached my house-door.”