( i»78 ; 
him as before, which he eat of now^ and then, but no 
body ever faw him Eat or Evacuate, tbo he did both 
vay regularly, as he had occafion 5 and fomefimes they 
have found him faft afleep with the Pot in his Hand in 
Bed, and fometiraes wirh his Mouth full of Meat, In 
this manner he lay for about ten weeks, and then could 
eat nothing at all, for his Jaws feem'd to be fet, and his 
Teeth clinchtfo clofe,that with all the Art they had with 
their Inftruments they cou d not open his Mouth, to put 
any thing into it to fupport him. At laft, obferving a hole 
made 'in his Teeth, by holding his Pipe in his Mouth, 
as moft great Smoakers ufually have, they through a 
Quill pour'd fomc Tent into his Throat now and then : 
And this was all he took for fix weeks and four days, 
and of that not above three pints or two quarts, iomp of 
which was fpilt too ^ he had made water but once, and 
never had a ftool all that time. 
Auguji the 7th, which is feventeen weeks from the 9th 
of Aprils ( when he began to fleep,) he awaked, put on 
his Cloaths^ and vvalkt about the Room, not knowing 
he had flept above a night, nor cou'd he be perf waded 
he had lain fo long, till going out into the Fields he 
found every body bufy in getting in their Harveft, and 
he remembefd very well^ when he fell afleep they were 
fowing of Barley and Oats, which he then faw ripe and 
fit to be cut down. 
There was one thing obfervable, That tho his Flefli 
was fomewhat wafted with fo long lying in Bed, and 
fafting for above fix weeks, yet a worthy Gentleman his 
Neighbour aflured me, when he faw him, which was 
the firft day of his coming abroad, he lookt brisker than 
ever he faw him in his life before ^ and asking him whe- 
ther the Bed had not made him fore, he aflured him and 
every body, that he neither found that, nor any other in- 
conveniency at all 5 and that he had not the leaft remem- 
brance 
