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health; he had only one horse,*and that was well; he knew 
how many mares were accounted for; he fed both horses well; 
he saw the horse every day ; up to his illness he was in most 
excellent condition ; he had him a week before he used him ; 
about the 20th or 22d day of the month he died; he was ill 
about a week ; when the horse was ill he told Mr. Bee, and he 
came to see him ; Mr. Hayward never saw him; Mr. Hooper 
was the veterinary surgeon who attended upon him; an ex¬ 
amination of the horse was made by Mr. Hooper after he was 
dead; he did not see the examination; he could not tell in 
what state the horse was. 
Re-examined by Mr. Bubb. —His own horse had been 
travelled before this one, and did so for some time afterwards. 
By His Honour. —Horses begin to travel generally about three 
or four years old ; some would travel them at three, and some 
four years old ; they had no particular reason for keeping him 
a week without sending him out. 
Richard Beekes , had been a servant of Mr. Davis ; he left 
last year ; he went to Mr. Davis’s last Michaelmas twelvemonth; 
he remembered this horse being sent to Mr. Davis’s stables, and 
he took him in; two men brought him; he saw that he was 
took good care of, and fed the same as the other horse, except 
in giving him linseed; the first morning he took him out he 
noticed something particular about him ; he found him go stiff" 
in the fore legs or chest; he remarked that he did not know 
whether Mr. Bee bought the horse for a sound one; in the 
course of the day he heard him cough two or three times; he 
took him out about five hours that day ; he had him out about 
four days and a half; on the last day he found him fail, he could 
not go on with his work ; he took him the same rounds as the 
other horse; he had the mares that were in use the same as 
their own horse, and had no other ; he told his master about it, 
and he said if the horse was any thing deficient he must let Mr. 
Bee know; he fetched the veterinary surgeon, and he attended 
daily and nightly; when the horse died he was opened, and he 
was by when it was done; he noticed that he was decayed in 
the lungs, inflammation, or something in that way ; they did not 
look proper nor healthy at all. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Newmarch. —They had him about 
a week before they travelled him; they had some quiet mares 
which he tried ; he had been a little stiff when he got him out 
of the stable; they went the same round perhaps two or three 
times; he travelled him four days and a half; he had about 
eight mares; he could not say exactly how many he had; 
some days he never had one; he might have had four or five 
some days of the time; he did not take account, for the other 
