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London Information of Witnesses taken
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in London
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aforesaid on the 18th day of April 1741 on
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view of the Body of
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Elizabeth Ansell
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now
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here lying dead
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Benjamin Abrahams
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Ge
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Hannah Wife
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of more
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Lying Lodger at one
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London maketh
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Oath on a side that
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Elizabeth Ansell
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about that been Months that she was a married Minar
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the deced had a sitt
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Bay
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her in who died
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hen eleven Months ago since which time the deced has
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been very much disorder in her sence so much so
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that Dept. was employed by the husband to look after
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deced during his absence - that one often observed the
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that talking to hereself - that she often
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threw any thing
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from dept. and often walked about her upon that
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he deced and her husband agree very well together street
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the deced husband always behaved well to her and used
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very senderly that Dept. left the that in
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one hairs of
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Stairs Room in her husbands Dwellings house
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Gravel Lane
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lounds lutch and out eight OClock on Thursday night last
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that she was very violent and disordered very much in
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to sense when Dept. then left her so much so that she
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high struck at Dept. with
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threw.
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and Iron Poker
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and then threw the Poker
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in Dept.
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that Dept. went about about ½ past eight OClock the
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next Morning Friday last to the deced house in order to
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attend her anusual Dept. not sleeping there that
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she got to the house she asked the Deced Servant where her
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mistress was that the Servant sayed she was missing and
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that she did not know where are was. that on Dept. searching
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the deced house the found the deced hanging by a Card
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