caufc the lining was not torn, only ript ofFfrcm the edge of the 
hat ( where it was fow*d on ) on that fide^ where the hole was 
made. But his hat not being found upon his head, but at fome 
diftance from him, it did not appear, againft what part of the 
head that hole was made. 
Upon the reft of his Cloaths, I do not know of any further 
effediuor did we fmell any fu-!phurous fcent about them : which 
might htyfartly becaule it was now a good while after the time^ 
aTnd Partly by reafonof their being pref@ntly drenched in the 
water into which he fell 
The night following, the three DoUors above mentioned^Sc my 
fcifjWith fome Chirurgioos (befides a multitude of others) were 
prefent at the opening of the head, to fee if any thing could be 
there difcoverd i but there appear'd no fign of cootufion j the 
brain full and in good order i the nerves whole and found, the 
veffels of the brain pretty full of blood. But nothing was by any 
of them difcernM to be at ail amils. But it was by candie-iightp 
and they had not time to make ¥ery nice Obfervation of it (the 
Body being to be buried by and by) and the crowd of people 
was a further hindrance* But if any thing had been confiderably 
QUt of order to the view, it would furely have been by fome of 
them difcovered. Some of them thought, they difcernM a Imali 
fiflure or crack in the skull ; and feme who held it, v/hile it was 
fawing off, faid, they fek it Jarring in their hands^ and there 
leem*d to the eye fomething like it, but it was fo fmall^ as that by 
Candie-light we could not agree it certainly fo to be. 
Some of the Hair on the right Temples was manifeftly finged^ 
or burnt; and the lower part of that Ear blacker, than the parts 
about it, but foft; and it might be only the letting of the Bloud. 
The upper part of the left flioulder, and that fide of the neck, 
were alfo fome what blacker^ than the reft of the Body, but whe» 
ther it were by the blow, which broke the collar, and fcorch'd 
the round red fpot thereupon, or only by fetling of the bloud, 
I cannot fay 5 yet I think, it might very well be, that both on 
the head) and on this fide of the neck, there might be a very 
great blow, and a contufion upon it (and feems to have been fo, 
by the tearing of the bar, and breaking the collar, if not alfo 
cracking of the skull ) and yet no fign of fuch contufion, becaufe 
dying fo tmmediately,thcre was not time for the bloud to gather 
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