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<p n="1533"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Deposition of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1176">London</rs>
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aforesaid this. 26th day of July 1793<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1533-1">Thomas Arreskine</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1534"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1534-1">John Collison</rs>
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of No. 4 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1177">Somerset Street</rs>
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in the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1178">Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1179">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ477">Glazier</rs>
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& Beadles of the<lb></lb>
said Parish maketh Oath that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about ½ part ten O Clock<lb></lb>
last Night in consequence of some information from Mr.<lb></lb>
Abrahams of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1180">Petticoat Lane</rs>
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London Horner Dept. went to<lb></lb>
said Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1534-2">Abraham House</rs>
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that in a Shed in <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1534-3">Mr. Abrahams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Yard Dept. found the deced (who was a Journey men to said<lb></lb>
Mr. Abrahams) hanging by a Cord fastened round or Beam<lb></lb>
in the Top of the Shed-that the deced was cut down and Dept<lb></lb>
desirethat he was quite deadthat Dept. afterwards<lb></lb>
acquainted the Ward Beadlethat the door of the shed was<lb></lb>
Locked inside when Dept. went first found the deced and was broken upon in<lb></lb>
Depts. presence</p>
<p n="1535"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1535-1">John Collison</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1536"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1536-1">Sarah Magson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ478">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Abrahams of Petticoat<lb></lb>
Lane aforesaid maketh Oath that she hath lived with<lb></lb>
Mr Abrahams about five years that she hath known the<lb></lb>
deced the whole) of that timethat about thirteen Months<lb></lb>
since the deced lost a Daughter who died as Dept. understood<lb></lb>
in a decline that since that time the deced has been employed<lb></lb>
setting up at Night to Watch Mr Abrhams premises while<lb></lb>
a Wall was repairingthat since the deceds <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ479">Daughter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
died he has appeared very dull and Melancholy and<lb></lb>
when Dept. has spoke to him he has appeared lost in<lb></lb>
Thought, and would say he thought his Daughter was<lb></lb>
with him and one time in particular since his <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ480">Daughter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
died the deced sayed he thought him Daughter had been<lb></lb>
pulling him by the Coat.</p>
<p n="1537"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1537-1">Sarah Magson</rs>
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