caufe the lining was not tern, only ript ofFfrom the edge of the 
hat ( where it was low’d on J on that fide, where the hole was 
made. But his hat not being found upon his heady but at fome 
diftance from him, it did not appear, agaioft what part of the 
head that hole was made. 
Upon the reft of his deaths, I do not know of any further 
effedhnor did we fmellany folphurous fcent about them : which 
might be , Partly becaule it was now a good while after the time, 
and Partly by reafonof their being prefently drenched in the 
water into which he fell. 
The night following, the three DoUors above mentioned, & my 
felfjWith fome Chirurgions (befides a multitude of others) were 
prefent at the opening of the head, to lee if any thing could be 
there difcover’d j but there appear’d no fignof contufion 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 difcern a d to be atallamils. But it was by candledighr, 
; and they had not time to make very nice Obfervation of it (the 
Body being to be buried by and by ) and the crowd of people 
was a fur ther hindrance. But if any thing had been confiderably 
out of order to the view* it would furely have been by fome of 
them difcovered. Some of them thought, they difcernM a fmall 
fiffure or crack in the skull ; and fome who held it, while it was 
fawingoft, faid, they felt it Jarring in their hands, and there 
feem cl to the eye fomething like it, but it was fo fmall, as that by 
Candle-light we could not agree it certainly fotobe. 
Some of the fezr on the right Temples wasmanifeftly finged, 
or burnt; and the lower part of that Ear blacker, than the parts 
about it, but foft; and it might be only the fetling of the Bloud. 
The upper part of the left (boulder, and that fide of the neck, 
were alfo fomewhat 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 hat, and breaking the collar, if not alfo 
cracking of the skull) and yet no fign of fuch contufion, becaufe 
dying fo immediately, there was not time for the bloud to gather 
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