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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ746">Servant</rs>
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and one of the Unkeepers to<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2328-2">John Kirby</rs>
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the Keeper of His Majesty's Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1957">Newgate</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that he locked the deced <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2328-4">Lawrence Jones</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Convict under Sentence of Death and ordered for execution<lb></lb>
on Wednesday next into the Cell in Newgate where he was<lb></lb>
confined about ½ past five in the Evening of Saturday<lb></lb>
last having previously chained him to the Floor the<lb></lb>
Chain presents the person who is chained from getting to<lb></lb>
the Window that the deced at the time Dept abt him<lb></lb>
appeared very low in which that he had a Night Gown<lb></lb>
and a Cap on and his stocking his with Garters of a Red<lb></lb>
and White Colour that Yesterday about ½ past nine in<lb></lb>
the Morning Dept went to unlock the Cell Door wherein<lb></lb>
he had left the deced the proceeding Evening<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in order<lb></lb>
to take the deced Breakfast to him that upon opening the<lb></lb>
Cell Door he found the deced. hanging by Air Garters<lb></lb>
fastened round the end of an Iron Ball that goes through <lb></lb>
the Wall of the Cell that he was quite suspended from the<lb></lb>
Floor that he was quite dead and cold and must have <lb></lb>
hanged sometime Dept. locked the Cell Door and under<lb></lb>
and acquainted his Matter Mr. Kirby who with Owen<lb></lb>
Dept. & and the person returned to the Cell that Owen<lb></lb>
cut the deced down and placed him on his Bed<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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<p n="2330"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2330-1">John Pitt</rs>
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one of the under keepers of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1958">Newgate</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that he was with the last Witness at the time of the deced was locked <lb></lb>
up on the Saturday<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Evening that Dept assisted in<lb></lb>
Chaining the deced. to the Floor that while Dept was so<lb></lb>
doing the deced. asked Dept. why he would not drink a<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1959">Bottle of Wine</rs>
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with him Dept. answered and sayed he<lb></lb>
would rather not the deced. sayed he wondered Dept.<lb></lb>
would not come into him Dept answered it being a<lb></lb>
Busy time with the sessions he could not deced. sayed</p>
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