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within in London aforesaid the 16th. day
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of January 1796 on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead
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James Thomas
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North a Ticket Porter lodging at a House in Plumb
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Free bourt
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Maketh Oath that the deced where
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Name as the herself sayed was
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Mary Edmonds
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came to the King
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between six and Seven on Thursday
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Night Last that the called for a Pint of Berr and Sat on a Seal
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under the Bar in the Last Room of said house that she was then
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soberthat the Beer being brought her she payed for il and
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drank it that the deced afterwards joined company with
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some other persons then drinking in the tap Room and continued
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there drinking & dancing till near to oClock when appearing
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in Liquor the
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Mistress of the House took here
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the
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Arm and led her to the Door and
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Dept. saw no more
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of her then that while the deced was there the sayed the
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had a Husband to be a very poor Woman and sayed she came
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from Lancasterthat about 11 oClock Yesterday Morning
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who was in a Boat Put his hand into the Water
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near the causeway and take hold of something and upon
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pulling it out of te Water it proved to be the deced that
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Dept. has been the deced this Morning lying in a shall in St.
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Ann ChurchYard
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Sworn this 16th. day of January
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1796 before me}
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Jas
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Thos North
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