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<p n="2524">London Deposition of Witness taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say, at the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2107">Saint Sepulchre</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2108">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2109">without in London</rs>
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aforesaid this 24th. day<lb></lb>
of December 1793 on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2524-1">Betsey Fitters</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="2525"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2525-1">Esther</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ816">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2525-2">Edward Shelton</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ817">Servant</rs>
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at No.<lb></lb>
28 Grafton Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2110">Newport Market</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2111">Middlesex</rs>
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maketh Oath that she hath known the deced<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2525-4">Betsey Fitters</rs>
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about a fortnight that she was a Prisoner<lb></lb>
in His Majesty's Gaol of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2112">Newgate</rs>
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for Debt-that she<lb></lb>
has been ill the whole of that time with a Dropsy and spit<lb></lb>
very much-that she was so ill as to keep to Her Bed<lb></lb>
the whole of that time-that she continued to get worse<lb></lb>
daily until this Morning about Eight OClock when<lb></lb>
she departed this Life that she was attended by the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ818">Surgeon</rs>
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of the said Gaol during her illness and<lb></lb>
had as much care of taken of her as the situation of<lb></lb>
the Gaol could admit of and Dept. has no doubt<lb></lb>
the aforesaid disorder occasioned the deceds Death</p>
<p n="2526">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2526-1">Esther<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Shelton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="2527">Sworn this 24th. day of December 1793<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
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