Samuel Lee< no role > a Prisoner for Debt in His Majesty's Prison the
Bratley Compter maketh Oath that the deced Mary Dove< no role > was brought
to the said prison between the hours of four and five in the afternoon
of yesterday by one Gobitas one of the Constables of the City of London
having been as Dept. understood from him charged with making a
noise and disturbance in some part of the Citythat by desire of one
of the Underkeepers of the prison Dept. looked the deced into a Room.
by herself in the said prison that the deced appeared to be very much intoxicated
with Liquor which was the reason of locking the deced upthat
between seven an Eight O Clock a Woman of the Name of Fanny
O Dart being brought to the prison charged with being disorderly
in the Streets Dept. went with her to Lock her up that Dept. put the said
O Dart in the same Room with the deced. that the deced when Dept
opened the Door appeared to be sitting on the Floor and appeared to
be asleep Dept. after putting the said O Dart into the Room left
them and locked the Doorthat about four O'Clock this Morning
another Woman of the name of Bathia Atkinson< no role > being brought
to the said Prison charged with having been disorderly was by
Dept. taken at the same Room where the deced was that Dept.
untouched the Door and put Atkinson into the Room that upon
putting Atkinson into the Room Dept. touched the Door and went
to Bedthat a little before Eight this Morning Dept. unlocked
the Door of the Room wherein he had left the deced, O Dart
& Atkinson that upon going into the Room Dept. found the deced
hanging by something round her Neck fastened to a Staple
in the Wall of the Room that Dept. fell the deced that he was
quite dead and coldthat the other two Women appeared to be
sitting upon that Floor Dept. went and acquainted Mr Roberts one
of the [..] keepers of his having found the deced before described
that Mr. Roberts returned with Dept. to the Room where the deced
was Dept. in the presence of Mr. Roberts asked O Dart & Atkinson
of the had heard any thing of the deced in the course of the Night
and they both answered No."

Samuel Lee< no role >