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Deposition of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Andrew
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14th day of June
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now here lying Dead.
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a Bookseller Lodging at the House
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of Mr Winkleman St. Martin Le Grand London
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about
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eight or ten Days that he was a
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by Trade
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that Dept the deced a Mr. Marklin has Mr. Kelsey
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were in Company together in Wednesday Morning
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last that they met together about elevon OClock in
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order to spend the Day together that they continued
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together until about five OClock in the afternoon of the
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same Day when they returned to the Robinhood Robin
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that Dept and the other persons
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ever rather intoxicated but the deced appeared soberer
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than any other of the Company that when they got him to
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the Robinhood a shifting tenth
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Brandy & trate of Rum & Water wch
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Dept can't say was called for that it was drank among
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Dept. this Company that the deced and Mr Macklin
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having played Cards together has points of Porter were
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brought in which were drank among the Company
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that Mr. Macklin & the deced began to argue who
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could drink the most Gin the deced sayed he could
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drink a quart Dept had before offered to be he could
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not drink a Quart the decad called for a Quart of
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Gin wch was brought in by Mr. Emery the Land Lord
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of the House who brought a Tambler at the same time
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that the Gin was placed on the Table and the deced sayed
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he was to drink it in five Minutes Mr. Emery continued
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in the Room that soon after the deced took the Pot up &
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drank that soon after he drank again and finished the
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whole of the Gin that Dept
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and the other persons
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could not think is was Gin but in order to be satisfied
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they drained the pot and found is to be the remains of
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Gain that the deced continued pretty well for about
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three or four Minutes when the deced fell from his Chairs
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