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_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._
_Q._ Are you a driver of a chaise at the Fountain at Canterbury?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Do you remember the last witness coming to your house with a fare early in a morning in February.
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Do you remember what day it was?
_A._ No, I do not.
_Q._ Do you remember what day of the week it was?
_A._ No, I do not.
_Q._ Was it one gentleman you particularly remember, or more?
_A._ One gentleman.
_Q._ From whence did he come?
_A._ From the s.h.i.+p at Dover.
_Q._ Did you drive the wheel horses or the leaders?
_A._ The leaders.
_Q._ He came with four horses?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And went away with four?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Where did you drive him to?
_A._ To the Rose at Sittingbourn.
_Q._ Did you see him into a chaise there?
_A._ He did not get out--the chaise went forwards.
_Q._ With four horses or two?
_A._ With four.
_Q._ Who drove him, do you remember the boys names?
_A._ Michael Finnis was one, and James Wakefield.
_Q._ What present did he make you?
_A._ I did not receive any money from him; the other boy received the money.
_Q._ What had you for your share?
_Mr. Park._ That cannot be received unless he saw it given.
_Mr. Adolphus._ Did you see the money given?
_A._ I was very busy taking the horses off.
_Q._ What had you for your share?
_A._ A Napoleon.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Park._
_Q._ Have you long lived at the Fountain at Canterbury?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Have you long known Thomas Dennis?
_A._ Yes, some years.
_Q._ Have you never driven a fare he brought from Dover before?
_A._ Not particularly to my knowledge.
_Q._ Your knowledge has been called to this subject, but you do not know that you ever drove one that he brought before?
_A._ I might have driven one, but he brought this I know.
_Q._ You might have driven a fare brought by him from Dover?
_A._ I might, there are a great many boys from that Inn.
_Q._ And you have driven a single gentleman before?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ And sometimes you have driven a chaise and four?
