London

Deposition of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say, at the parish of Saint Giles
without Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripple-
gate without in London aforesaid the 25th.
day of November 1790 on view of the body
of Mary Crocket< no role > now here lying Dead

Martha Taylor< no role > a Servant to Mr. Daniel Crockett< no role > of No. 43
Barbican in London Stationer maketh Oath that she hath lived
with said Mr. Crockett about five Years that during the whole
of that time the deced who was Sister to [..] said Master and a
Maiden Lady about Sixty years of Age has been [..] ill and was afflicted
with a bad Leg that for these eight Months part she has been
so ill as to be confined to her Room that she left the deced in
her Room [..] (a one pair of Stair Room in her said Masters house)
about ½ part ten laste Night that the Shutters of the said
Room were that to but not fastened the deced never suffering
them to be fastened that when Dept: left the deced she was getting
into Bed that Dept. that the Door of the said Room but it never
was locked the decedbeingoften expressing her fear of five
that about ½ part four the next Morning Dept. was alarmed [..]
by the Walshman knocking at the Door and saying some body had fell out of this door
[..] and on getting up [..] Servant of [..] her said Master
sold Dept. her Mistress had fell out of Window and on going
into [..] the deceds Room she observed one of [..] the
bottom Sackes of the Window put quite up that the furniture
and other things in the Room appeared exactly in the same stall
as they were the proceeding Night Dept. the went down into
the Shop of her said Masters house and found the deced lying on the floor there [..]
[..] that [..] she showed no signs of Life that a great
quantity of Blood came from the side of her head that the deced
won taken up Stair and soon after Mr. Slater a Surgeon who
had been sent for came that Mr. Slater sayed he could do
nothing for the deced for she was a dead Woman that there is
a large Locker under the Window that was open so that any
person getting up on it and looking out of the Window in a hurry
Bright over balance themselves and fall out

Sworn the 25 day of November 1790
before me}

T: Shelton Corr.

[..] Taylor