X. _Francis Lane_[178] testified, That being hired by the Husband of

this _How_ to get him a parcel of Posts and Rails, this Lane hired _John Pearly_ to assist him. This Prisoner then told _Lane_, That she believed the Posts and Rails would not do, because _John Perly_ helped him; but that if he had got them alone, without _John Pearlie's_ help, they might have done well enough. When _James How_ came to receive his Posts and Rails of _Lane_, _How_ taking them up by the Ends, they, tho' good and sound, yet unaccountably broke off, so that _Lane_ was forced to get thirty or forty more. And this Prisoner being informed of it, she said, She told him so before, because _Pearly_ helped about them.