FRancis Coltman of the Parish of St. Martins in the Town of Leicester Maulster , being one of the Coroners Inquest , for the inquiry upon the death of goodwife Woodlane , wife of Henry Woodlane of the said Town of Leicester Chandler , taken before Thomas Blunt , and William Spichley , Coroners of the said town , who being examined , doth voluntarily protest , as he shall answer before Almightie god , that what he shall deliver upon this examination in this busines is the truth , and saith , first , that he being summoned to serve upon this Inquest at the Guild-Hall of the said Town of Lecester , and having received the charge given by the Coroners with the rest of the Iury , was thereupon with the rest of the Jury required to go and view the body of the said party diseased which he did accordingly , and did find her to be shot under the back into the belly , being very great with child , and within a Month or five weeks of the time of her delivery ( as the women there present did verily believe ) And he further saith , that it was given in evidence to the said Jury , that this cruell fact was committed by one Chumley a Cavalier Trooper in the Kings sarvice , who had formerly faln out with her husband , beaten him , and threatned to be revenged upon his wife , being billited in the said Woodlands house .

Thomas Todd of the said Towne of Leicester Taylor , being likewise examined upon the same businesse , and being one of the same Jury , upon the like Protestation doth affirme , that what the said Francis Coltman hath delivered upon his examination ( being now read unto him ) is the truth , and in witnesse of the truth hereof , these parties examined have Subscribed their names , the day and Yeere first above written .