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of Bedford Sury Westr. one of the patrole
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Wednesday morning between the hours of 12 and are Dept. being
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on his duty he looked over the platform and saw the deced lying not
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The deced was a live but appeared not to be able to speakDept.
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immedy. was
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Sworn the 14th. March 1790
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before me
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T Shelton Corr.}
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maketh oath that the deced laid with Dept as a
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Porter to upwards of a YearSays about two months ago Dept.
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discovered that deced had a venereal complaint, upon which Dept
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from where he went away as
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Dept has been informed of his own accord last
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Tuesday night.
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Sworn the 19th. March 1790
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before me
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T Shelton Corr.}
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Edwd. Halsey Bockett.
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