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London Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to says at the Parish of Saint Botolph
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in the Ward of Portsoken
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in
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aforesaid this
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25th day of April
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1795
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on view of the Body of Maxwell
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Naysmith now here lying dead.
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Thomas Elliott
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No.3 Lim Street Square London
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Surgeon
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Apothecary
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced
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Maxwell Naysmith
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about twenty years that-Dept apprence
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to be as the deceds House in
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John Street
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yesterday Morning about Eleven
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OClock the
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for the deced-the deced soon after came to Dept.
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in his
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given Dept. asked the deced how he was (he having been ill sometime
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before) the deced sayed he was very well-he continued a
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little while with Dept. & then left him that he then look every wild with his Eyes-that in about five
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Minister Dept. head the Report of a Pistol as Dept. believed
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Dept. went up their and in
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the
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found Room one
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two pair of
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Stairs
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Dept.
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back Roon Dept. found the deced lying upon
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the Bed a great dead of Smoke in the Room his fore head
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shattered & good quantity of blood about Dept.
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being a good
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larned went down to the one pair of Stairs
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Room
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that some after Dept. was called upon the wants to the deced
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Room on going into the Room the deced dressing Gown
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being on fire Dept. extintuiched the flames Dept then
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observed the But end of a Piston in the deced hand
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Meath back Dept. called on the deced in conquence
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of his having a Fore
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upon Dept. going seeing the deced
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Dept.
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the deced with great wildness & earned stone
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asked Dept
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sayed to Dept look, last look at any Brant Dept. Exmined
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for the
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found no
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particular appear and on his
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Throat-that from that time until his Death Dept. has
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observed great charge in the deced manner & and not
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that he looked very wild talked very in copevently
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& Dept. has every reason to believe from the observations
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he has made upon the deced behaviours this last Month
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past that he was very much Lenanged
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Sworn this 25 day of April
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1795 before me}
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Thos. Elliot
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NB. The deced Clerk, two Woman Servants & his Man
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Servant were Sworn & examined & all confirmed she Witness Elliot as to
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the Lenanged state of the deced for these had two Months.
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