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London Informations of Witnesses taken at London, that is to say,
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at the Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of
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23rd day of December
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on view of the Body of
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Owen Hughes
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then and there
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lying dead.
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Margaret Lewis
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wife of
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of
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the Fleet
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prison who
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being on her oath saith that she hath known the Deceased about a twelve
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month that she hath attended him for a fortnight last past during which
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time he has been very ill with a Cough and shit much that on Friday
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last he became much worse and kept his Bed and had a delirum
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and
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continued getting still worse until Sunday last when he departed this life saith she
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believes the cause of his Death to be an inward decay that-he has
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never been attended by a Physician nor had any medical assistance but that she hath constantly attended
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Sworn this 23d. day of
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December 1788 before me}
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T Shelton Corr.
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