I I - American Memory

[^9l
Room, and ftie ftaid with them all Night, fometimes
fittingiip,and fometimes lay down upon the Bed by them.
Tlie fame Day —— Bennet, the King's Organ-ma-
ker's Apprentice, going to Wcftmwfler to fee the Head,
he believ'd it to be Mr. Hayes's, he being intimately
acquainted with him, and thereupon went and inform'd ,
her, that the Head exposed to View in St. Margaret's
Church-yard was fo very like her Hufband's, tiiat he
believ'd it to be his ; upon which fhe affiir'd him, that
he was very well, and reprov'd him very fharply for
forming fuch an Opinion, telling him, he muft be very
cautious how he raifed any fuch falfe and fcandalous Re-
ports, for that he might thereby bring himfelf into a
great deal of Trouble. This Reprimand put a Stop to
the Youth's faying any Thing more about it, and having
no other Reafon than the Similitude of Faces, he faid
no more about it.
The fame Day alfo Mr. Samuel Patrick having been
at Weftrniiifter to fee the Head, went from thence to Mr.
Grainger i at the Dog and Dial in Manmouth-Jireet, where
lAx.Hayes and his Wife were intimately acquainted, tliey
and moft of their Journeymen and Servants being Worce-
fierjhire Peopls,Mr.i'a/riV,4 told them that he had been to
fee the Head,and that in his Opinion,it was the moft like
to their Countryman Haps\ of any that he ever faw.
Billings being there then at Work, fome of the Ser-
vants reply'd, it could not be his, becaufe there being
one of Mr. Hayes^ Lodgers (meaning Billings than at
Work,) they Ihould have heard of it by him if he had
been miffing, or any Accident had happen'd to him; to
which Billings made Anfwer, that he was then alive
and well, and that he left him in Bed when he came to
Work in the Morning.
The 3d Day of March fhe gave Wood a White Coat
and a pair of Leathern Breeches of her Hufband's, which
he carry'd with him to Greenford, near Harronxi on the
Hill. Thefe Things Mrs. Springate feeing Wood carry
away from Mrs. fiayes's, bundled up in a white Cloth,
told her that Wood was gone down Stairs with a Bun-
dle;