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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that<lb></lb>
is to say at the Parish of<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1067">Ward of Cheap</rs>
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in London aforesaid this<lb></lb>
27th. day of August 1796 on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1139-1">Jeremiah Rhoydes</rs>
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now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1140"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1140-1">Sarah Leaver</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ344">Widow</rs>
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maketh oath that she hath had the<lb></lb>
care of the deceds house Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1140-2">Jeremiah Rhoydes</rs>
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of No 28 Buckles<lb></lb>
bury for these five Weeks part that during that time the Family<lb></lb>
has been<del>in the Country</del>
at a House at Hempstead but she deced usually came to Town in the<lb></lb>
Morning and return'd to Hempstead in the Evening That a little<lb></lb>
after nine this Morning the deced and his Wife came home That<lb></lb>
they went into a little Room on the Ground Floor that a little while<lb></lb>
after Deponent being in the Kitchen on the Ground Floor saw the<lb></lb>
deced go up Stairs & a little while after Dept. heard a report of fire<lb></lb>
Arms That soon<del>a little while</del>
after Dept. went up Stairs and being on the<lb></lb>
landing place of the one Mr. of Stairs her Mistress who was then<lb></lb>
in the dining Room called to her Dept. then went up to<del>the</del>
a two<lb></lb>
hair of stairs back Room in order to clean it that it was then about ¼ to ten that the Door was<lb></lb>
a little open upon going in Dept. saw he Master the deced lying<lb></lb>
a cross the Bed and a quantity of blood about him that a Pistol<lb></lb>
was lying on the Floor between the Bed and the Window<lb></lb>
Dept. than gave the alarm That 9th Man Servant was in the Kitchen<lb></lb>
and two or three Clerks in the Counting house that no other<lb></lb>
persons were in the House That Dept. has known the deced about<lb></lb>
seventeen years That for this fortnight part she has observed a<lb></lb>
great charge in the deced That he has appeared very low spirited<lb></lb>
his Appetite has failed him very much Dept. has observed<lb></lb>
to the Man Servant lately her Masters behaviour his appearing in<lb></lb>
so low a way that he looked very shy and appeared<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
as if he wished or wanted<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to avoid<lb></lb>
people that he looked Wild with his Eyes and Dept. observed to<lb></lb>
her fellow Servant that she was afraid her Master (the deced) he was going to be in the same way<lb></lb>
his Brother was who has been deranged near four years part<lb></lb>
and whom she believes is now under the care of some Medical<lb></lb>
Persons That the deced came into the Kitchen yesterday which was<lb></lb>
what he never did before That he then looked very wild with his<lb></lb>
Eyes and stared very much which was the reason of Dept. making<lb></lb>
the observation to her fellow servant then Morning</p>
<p n="1141"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1141-1">Sarah Leaver</rs>
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