to the tenth he denies that he or his father or mother or any of them did at the said time or place give any blow or stroke to the hurt of Read or to any other workers labourers or carriers of timber as is supposed and he further says that he does not know that his mother with any staff or stone or any other thing did give Read any blow or did hit him but says that his mother told him that she cast a stone at him by the gate but she could not tell him that she did hit him with the stone as is supposed Simon Ive