How did you find yourself after that?—­I did not find any remarkable disorder till the Wednesday morning about two o’clock, before my master’s death; then I was seemingly seized with convulsions.  My throat was very troublesome for five or six weeks after, and seemed a little soreish and a little swelled.  I continued very ill for three weeks and upwards after my master’s death, which was on the Wednesday.  I went to bed sick at two that morning, and applied to Dr. Addington.

Do you remember anything besides letters coming from Mr. Cranstoun?—­I remember she had once a large box of table linen and some Scotch pebbles in it; she said they came from him.

What time was this?—­This was early in the spring, before my master’s death.

Had she more than one box sent to her?—­She had a small box sent afterwards of Scotch pebbles; that might be about three months before his death, or less, I cannot say.

Did she use to show the pebbles to anybody?—­She used to show them to any person of her acquaintance; but I never heard of any powder to clean them.

Cross-examined—­For a year before the 5th of August last had anything ailed your master so as to call in the apothecary?—­About a year before he had had a violent cold.

Was he, or was he not, in good health for a year before?—­He was frequently complaining of the gravel and heartburn, which he was subject to for years.

Did he make any other complaints?—­He used to have little fits of the gout.

Was there any other complaint for seven, eight, nine, or ten years?—­Nothing particular, but that of the heartburn, which I cannot tell whether I ever heard him complain of before or not.

Can you take upon you to say that he made any particular complaint of the heartburn more than he had done at any other time?—­I cannot say positively, because I have not continued these things in my memory.  He ordered me to give him some dry oatmeal and water for the heartburn.

Is that good for the heartburn?—­I have been told it is very good for it.

How was her behaviour to her father?—­Her general behaviour was dutiful, except upon any passion or a hasty word from her father.

When did she call her father “old villain"?—­She would use expressions of that kind when she was in a passion.

Upon what account?—­For using her ill.

KING’S COUNSEL—­Were these expressions made use of before his face or behind his back?—­I have heard her before his face and behind his back.

PRISONER’S COUNSEL—­When have you heard it?—­I believe in the last twelve months, but cannot be sure.

KING’S COUNSEL—­Recollect on what occasion?—­It has been, I believe, on little passions on both sides, and that generally from trifles.

PRISONER’S COUNSEL—­When did you first communicate your suspicion to Mr. Blandy about his being poisoned?—­On the Saturday morning before his death, from what I saw on the Wednesday before.