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any thing the matter with him. lie was not very sleek, lie was fat, but had 
his old coat on. From the 12th, he remained in my stable. I wanted him 
for riding as well as didving, and also to go in a cart. I had ridden him as far 
as the Ilotwell Road, about the 8th or 9th. I merely rode him then to see if 
I liked his action. I never saw him trot his best at all except once, in hand, in 
Mr. Fisher s ride. Excepting upon that occasion, I never saw him trot as fast 
as seven miles an hour. After the 8th or 9th, I did not use him again, nor 
was he rode or driven in my presence till the 12th. Between those days he 
remained in my stable. When I drove him on the 12th, I observed no wrong 
symptom about him. After the 12th I did not use him till the loth, when he 
was driven again by Starkey to Arno’s Court. Between the 12th and the 15th he 
had done nothing at all, except going in a cart to fetch a puncheon of whiskey 
from the quay. I did not go with him on that occasion, but saw him start, 
and had a good report of him w'hen he came back. On the 16th 1 rode him 
to Arno's Court, and to Ivatt’s Hotel in the Hotwell Road. I did not go 
faster than six miles an hour. I never saw him gallop or canter in my life. 1 
am not fond of galloping up hill; indeed I am no galloper at all. Up to 
this time, I had observed nothing the matter with the horse at all, except that 
I heard him, on the 16th, give a kind of snorting cough at the turnpike-gate 
going to Arno’s Court. 
On the 17th he did nothing, but remained in my stable, in a loose box. On 
the 18th I rode him to Ivatt’s Hotel, and to Mr. Winwood’s on Clifton Dowm. 
1 should think about twm-and-a-half miles altogether. I do not think that I 
either rode or drove him from the 18th, or 19th, till the 24th, as I had another 
horse, and my business at that time lay in town. On the 24th I drove him 
to Arno’s Court, and, on the 25th, to Arno’s Court again. On the 26th 1 
went to the Cotton Works, and, from the 26th to the 4th of April, he never 
worked at aU. Up to this time I had not observed any symptoms of a cough, 
or any thing to attract my notice. On the 4th of April I rode him to the 
Cotton Works again. The distance is as much as two-and-a-half miles from 
my house. 
On my way, as I came into the Old Market, the horse began to cough, and 
coughed till he nearly tumbled down. I pulled him in and stood still, as I 
thought he w'ould have fallen down, he coughed so very violently. I had not 
ridden him fast at all. I walked him the greater part of the way. I observed no 
cause for this cough. There was no cause in any thing 1 had done that da}'. 
After 1 heard him cough, 1 walked him gently home, and gave him some medi¬ 
cine as soon as he returned. I gave him a drachm of aloes, with some carbonate 
of ammonia and linseed meal. In my judgment that was the proper medicine 
to give. It was what I am in the habit of giving constantly. The next day, the 
5th, I gave him some medicine again. I did not observe whether he coughed in 
the stable; I was there frequently, but did not hear him do so. On the 6th I 
had him saddled to take me out again, but he was so out of spirits, and shewed 
such languor, that I only rode him about two hundred yards at a walking 
pace, ami brought him back again. I gave him medicine again on that day, 
and he liad as good care and attention as any other horse of mine ever had. 
I'he next day, the 7tli, he had another dose of medicine. I did not liear him 
cough either on that day, or the 6th, when lie was so low-spirited. On the 
8tli he was taken ill, and, at noon, refused his oats. He ate his morning feed, 
but his mid-day one he left in the manger. My groom informed me of it, 
and, at f()ur o’clock in the afternoon, 1 went and saw the horse, and found him 
very ill. His pulse was more than sixty a minute, twenty a minute more than 
it ought to be. 'fins shewed fever, and I gave him a drachm of aloes, some 
foxglove, and some tartar emetic, 'fhe object of this was to lower his pulse, 
d'owards the evening the pulse rose to ninety, and he was bled between nine 
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