London
Deposition of a Witness taken at London
that is to say, at the
[..] Precinct of Bridewell
Hospital in the Ward of Farringdon
without
in London
aforesaid this 27th day of January
1795
on view of the Body of Hesther Tarbut
now here Lying Dead
Mary < no role >
Wife of William Randle< no role >
of Bridewell Hospital
London
maketh Oath that the deced Hester Tarbut came to Bridewell
Hospital on [..] Tuesday Last the 20th. instt. by Virtue of Warrant
of Commitment under the hand & seal of Thomas Harley< no role >
Esqr one
of the Aldermen of the City of London
being committed by
him as a Rogue & Vagabond to be kept to hard Lobour inthe
Home of Correction
of Bridewell Hospital
aforesaid for seven
Days & then to be removed to the Setting Aldermen's Room
Guildhall
to be passed to her last legal Settlement or otherwise
to be dealt with according to Law that she sayed she had an
Arthmatic Complaint & also a Veneral Complaint on her-that the
appeared very ill and hardly capable of walking-that she still
continued very ill and the next day took to her Bed-that she
hardly ever got out of her Bed afterwards that she continued
very ill and got worse daily until Saturday Evening last
when she departed this Life-that she was attended by
the Surgeon
and Apothecary
of the Hospital during her
illness & had every care taken of her the situation of the
place would admit and Dept. believes the aforesaid
disorders to have occasioned the deceds Death.
Sworn this 27th day of January
1795 before me}
her
Mary [mark] Randle< no role >
Mark.