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<p n="1451"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Mildred<lb></lb>
the Virgin in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1398">Ward of Cheap</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date331">5th. day of November 1795</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1451-1">David Rees</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying Dead</p>
<p n="1452"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1452-1">Samuel Lee</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ439">turnkey</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1399">the Poultry</rs>
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Compter Prison maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that he hath known the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ440">deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1452-2">David Rees</rs>
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about a Month<lb></lb>
that he was<del>also</del>
a Prisoner in the said Prison and committed for<lb></lb>
a Fraud that he was very ill when he was brought to the<lb></lb>
Prison and appeared to be in a State of insanity that he continued<lb></lb>
in that state until yesterday Morning when he departed this Life<lb></lb>
that the Surgeon of the Prison saw the deced several times but sayed<lb></lb>
he could do nothing for him.</p>
<p n="1453">Sworn this 5th day of November<lb></lb>
1795 before me}</p>
<p n="1454"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1454-1">Samuel Lee</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1455"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1455-1">Elizabeth Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1455-2">Samuel Pincott</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ441">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo1400">the Poultry</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Compter maketh oath that she hath<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
attended the deced<lb></lb>
daily since his commitment. that he was very in mine sometimes<lb></lb>
Moving that he was so Raving that he was obliged to be confined<lb></lb>
in a Room by himself and his Victuals taken to him that he<lb></lb>
often stripped himself and colouring the last Week tore all his<lb></lb>
Cloaths and Bed Cloaths to pieces Dept. saw him Yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning about nine oClock or ½ an hour after that he had<lb></lb>
scarcely any Cloaths on his at that time but appeared<lb></lb>
sensible that about<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
eleven OClock Dept. not hearing the<lb></lb>
deced move called for the Keys and one of the Keepers came<lb></lb>
& opening the door and going in they found deced dead lying<lb></lb>
on his face.</p>
<p n="1456">Sworn this 5th. day of November<lb></lb>
1795 before me}</p>
<p n="1457"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1457-1">Elizabeth Pincott</rs>
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