four whether you or any of your company upon 11.4.last past or thereabouts or any time or times since say or report to any person or persons or amongst yourselves in the hearing of any person or persons that you would have lain upon the ground or else the said Read and his workmen carriers of wood and timber would have lain upon the ground before they should have carried off their said wood and timber through the said way before mentioned or did you not say or report to the like effect yea or no