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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that
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is to say at the Parish of
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in the
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in London aforesaid this
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27th. day of August 1796 on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead
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Sarah Leaver
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maketh oath that she hath had the
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care of the deceds house Mr.
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Jeremiah Rhoydes
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of No 28 Buckles
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bury for these five Weeks part that during that time the Family
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has been
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at a House at Hempstead but she deced usually came to Town in the
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Morning and return'd to Hempstead in the Evening That a little
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after nine this Morning the deced and his Wife came home That
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they went into a little Room on the Ground Floor that a little while
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after Deponent being in the Kitchen on the Ground Floor saw the
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deced go up Stairs & a little while after Dept. heard a report of fire
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Arms That soon
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a little while
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after Dept. went up Stairs and being on the
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landing place of the one Mr. of Stairs her Mistress who was then
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in the dining Room called to her Dept. then went up to
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a two
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hair of stairs back Room in order to clean it that it was then about ¼ to ten that the Door was
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a little open upon going in Dept. saw he Master the deced lying
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a cross the Bed and a quantity of blood about him that a Pistol
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was lying on the Floor between the Bed and the Window
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Dept. than gave the alarm That 9th Man Servant was in the Kitchen
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and two or three Clerks in the Counting house that no other
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persons were in the House That Dept. has known the deced about
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seventeen years That for this fortnight part she has observed a
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great charge in the deced That he has appeared very low spirited
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his Appetite has failed him very much Dept. has observed
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to the Man Servant lately her Masters behaviour his appearing in
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so low a way that he looked very shy and appeared
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as if he wished or wanted
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to avoid
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people that he looked Wild with his Eyes and Dept. observed to
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her fellow Servant that she was afraid her Master (the deced) he was going to be in the same way
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his Brother was who has been deranged near four years part
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and whom she believes is now under the care of some Medical
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Persons That the deced came into the Kitchen yesterday which was
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what he never did before That he then looked very wild with his
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Eyes and stared very much which was the reason of Dept. making
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the observation to her fellow servant then Morning
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