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and I went with him. Dines and 
Gurney each took a double bar- 
relled gun; I took a pistol. We 
walked about the park till half- 
past ten, without hearing any. 
thing. We then sat down to rest, 
ina shed near the cottage, and 
almost immediately afterwards 
heard a gun; from the sound, we 
thought it to have been fired near 
the head of the Lake. I took 
the gun from Gurney, and we ran 
in that direction. When we got 
to the head of the lake, we stood 
and listened: in a few minutes 
we heard the sound of footsteps: 
we followed the direction of the 
sound and soon heard another 
gun fired; and after a short in- 
terval, a third in a thick planta- 
tion adjoining the park pales. 
Dines said, “I know they are 
here.” He called Gurneyand me 
to come to him, and directed us 
to go into the wood abreast with 
him. He said, ‘ Mind what 
we are going about ; donot shoot 
at any man, unless you see him 
point his gun at you.” A voice 
called out, “‘ Come on.” I looked 
towards the side from which the 
voice came, and saw seyeral men; 
I thought as many as six or se- 
ven: they were not more than 
ten yards distant; there was a 
moon but the sky was cloudy; 
the men stood still in a body. 
Dines said to them, “ Dont you 
consider that you are imposing 
upon me uncommonly?” Noan- 
swer was given to that. We stood 
@ minute or two looking at them, 
without any thing more said on 
either side. One of them said, 
“We will go off ;? Dines an- 
swered, “I hope you will go off 
the premises directly ;’ they 
turned, and walked towards the 
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park pale. 
than fifty yards from the pale. 
Dines, as they were going, said, 
“* We are not strong enough for 
you to-night, but we will be as 
strong as you another night. One 
of them said, in reply to that, 
“if you bring twenty men, we 
will bring forty:” they then got 
over the pale, intotheroad. We 
got over immediately after them ; 
Ithen saw that two had guns, 
We were within about eight or 
ten yards of them; Dines said, 
‘¢J insist upon your going off the 
manor.” One of them answer; 
ed, ‘* If you fetch all the men in 
Southill parish, we will not go 
off.” Dines ordered me to call 
George Dilley, who keeps the 
White Horse in Southill (within 
150 yards of the spot on which 
we stood) ; I ran to the house, 
and called Dilley and his son. 
I returned immediately. When I 
had got about half way back, I 
heard the sound of a gun, and at 
the same moment, heard: Dines 
cry out, “ The Lord have mercy 
upon me, I am a dead man.” 
Immediately afterwards, I heard 
two reports of a gun, I very 
often, and almost every day, 
heard the sound of Dines’s gun, 
which was a very good double- 
barrelled gun. It sounded diffe- 
rently from an ordinary gun, and 
I have no doubt that the last two 
reports were from Dines’s gun: 
his gun was loaded when I left 
him, and 1 found it lying by 
him, with both barrels discharged. 
I heard the men running away, 
before 1 could reach Dines. 1 
heard him call to Gurney, ‘¢ For 
God's sake come. as soon ag you 
can.” Gurney had been knocked 
down and wounded, and was 
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