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<p n="808"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Deposition of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the parish of Saint Andrew<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo746">Holborn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo747">ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo748">London</rs>
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aforesaid this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date184">14th day of June<lb></lb>
1794</rs>
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on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n808-1">John Reiley</rs>
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now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="809"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n809-1">Patrick Cumerford</rs>
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a Bookseller Lodging at the House<lb></lb>
of Mr Winkleman St. Martin Le Grand London<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about<lb></lb>
eight or ten Days that he was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ232">Shoemaker</rs>
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by Trade<lb></lb>
that Dept the deced a Mr. Marklin has Mr. Kelsey<lb></lb>
were in Company together in Wednesday Morning<lb></lb>
last that they met together about elevon OClock in<lb></lb>
order to spend the Day together that they continued<lb></lb>
together until about five OClock in the afternoon of the<lb></lb>
same Day when they returned to the Robinhood Robin<lb></lb>
hood Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo749">Shoe Lane</rs>
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that Dept and the other persons<lb></lb>
ever rather intoxicated but the deced appeared soberer<lb></lb>
than any other of the Company that when they got him to<lb></lb>
the Robinhood a shifting tenth<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Brandy & trate of Rum & Water wch<lb></lb>
Dept can't say was called for that it was drank among<lb></lb>
Dept. this Company that the deced and Mr Macklin<lb></lb>
having played Cards together has points of Porter were<lb></lb>
brought in which were drank among the Company<lb></lb>
that Mr. Macklin & the deced began to argue who<lb></lb>
could drink the most Gin the deced sayed he could<lb></lb>
drink a quart Dept had before offered to be he could<lb></lb>
not drink a Quart the decad called for a Quart of<lb></lb>
Gin wch was brought in by Mr. Emery the Land Lord<lb></lb>
of the House who brought a Tambler at the same time<lb></lb>
that the Gin was placed on the Table and the deced sayed<lb></lb>
he was to drink it in five Minutes Mr. Emery continued<lb></lb>
in the Room that soon after the deced took the Pot up &<lb></lb>
drank that soon after he drank again and finished the<lb></lb>
whole of the Gin that Dept<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and the other persons<lb></lb>
could not think is was Gin but in order to be satisfied<lb></lb>
they drained the pot and found is to be the remains of<lb></lb>
Gain that the deced continued pretty well for about<lb></lb>
three or four Minutes when the deced fell from his Chairs</p>
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