London Deposition of a Witness taken at London
that is to say at the Precinct of Saint Ann
Blackfriers in the Ward of Farringdon
within in London aforesaid the 16th. day
of January 1796 on view of the Body of
Ann Edmonds< no role > now here lying Dead

James Thomas< no role > North a Ticket Porter lodging at a House in Plumb
Free bourt Shoe Lane Maketh Oath that the deced where [..]
Name as the herself sayed was Mary Edmonds< no role > came to the King Golden Key
Fleet Market [..] between six and Seven on Thursday
Night Last that the called for a Pint of Berr and Sat on a Seal
under the Bar in the Last Room of said house that she was then
soberthat the Beer being brought her she payed for il and [..]
drank it that the deced afterwards joined company with
some other persons then drinking in the tap Room and continued
there drinking & dancing till near to oClock when appearing
in Liquor the [mark] Mistress of the House took here [..] the
Arm and led her to the Door and [..] Dept. saw no more
of her then that while the deced was there the sayed the
had a Husband to be a very poor Woman and sayed she came
from Lancasterthat about 11 oClock Yesterday Morning
Dept. being on the Causeway of Blackfriars Bridge saw a
Waterman who was in a Boat Put his hand into the Water
near the causeway and take hold of something and upon
pulling it out of te Water it proved to be the deced that
Dept. has been the deced this Morning lying in a shall in St.
[..] Ann ChurchYard

Sworn this 16th. day of January
1796 before me}

Jas Thos North< no role >