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<p n="77">London Deposition of a Witness taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the Precinct of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo69">Saint Ann</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo70">Blackfriers</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo71">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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within in London aforesaid the 16th. day<lb></lb>
of January 1796 on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n77-1">Ann Edmonds</rs>
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now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="78"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n78-1">James Thomas</rs>
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North a Ticket Porter lodging at a House in Plumb<lb></lb>
Free bourt <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo72">Shoe Lane</rs>
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Maketh Oath that the deced where<obscured></obscured>
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Name as the herself sayed was <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n78-2">Mary Edmonds</rs>
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came to the King <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo73">Golden Key</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo74">Fleet Market</rs>
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between six and Seven on Thursday<lb></lb>
Night Last that the called for a Pint of Berr and Sat on a Seal<lb></lb>
under the Bar in the Last Room of said house that she was then<lb></lb>
soberthat the Beer being brought her she payed for il and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
drank it that the deced afterwards joined company with<lb></lb>
some other persons then drinking in the tap Room and continued<lb></lb>
there drinking & dancing till near to oClock when appearing<lb></lb>
in Liquor the<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mistress of the House took here<obscured></obscured>
the<lb></lb>
Arm and led her to the Door and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dept. saw no more<lb></lb>
of her then that while the deced was there the sayed the<lb></lb>
had a Husband to be a very poor Woman and sayed she came<lb></lb>
from Lancasterthat about 11 oClock Yesterday Morning<lb></lb>
Dept. being on the Causeway of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo75">Blackfriars Bridge</rs>
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saw a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ20">Waterman</rs>
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who was in a Boat Put his hand into the Water<lb></lb>
near the causeway and take hold of something and upon<lb></lb>
pulling it out of te Water it proved to be the deced that<lb></lb>
Dept. has been the deced this Morning lying in a shall in St.<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Ann ChurchYard</p>
<p n="79">Sworn this 16th. day of January<lb></lb>
1796 before me}</p>
<p n="80">Jas <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n80-1">Thos North</rs>
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