The poor man stumbled

The following remarkable affair is said to have happened near Frome in Somersetshire: A farmer having high words with his wife; and being employed at the same time in somewhat wherein he had occasion for the use of a bill-hook, which he had in his hand, on some provocation he gave her a cut on the top of the head with it, on which she ran from him, and he after her, in order (as supposed) to repeat the blow, when there being a very deep well in the yard with its mouth unstopped, the woman leaped over it, but the poor man stumbled, fell headlong into it, and was drowned.