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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that is to
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say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Less in
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the
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without in London
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aforesaid this 8th. day of February 1799 on view of
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the body of
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Thomas Askins
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now here lying Dead.
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James Sherwin
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of No. 38 James Street Bedford Row
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Gentleman
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about twenty years
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That
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he hath known the deced since he has been in London which
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is between seven and eight yearsthat the deced
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was
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employed in a flatting Mill of Mr Scott of
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Giltspur street
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Aldridge of
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Aldersgate Street
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and lately in a flatting Mill of Mr Aldridge of
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Scott of Giltspur Street
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That in
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the year 1791 the deced kept an Inn at
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Uttoxeter
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in Staffordshire
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that at that time from what Dept. then saw of the deced and from
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what he had seen of the deced at different times since and what
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he has heard of the deced he has every reason to believe and think
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that the deced was at intervals deranged in his Mind
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Sworn this 8th. day of February
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1799 before me}
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Js. Sherwin
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Elizabeth
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wife of
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Richard Cripps
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of No. 38 Duke Street in the Parish
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of
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maketh Oath that
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the deced has lodged in her house about two yearsthat about four
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o Clock on Monday afternoon last she saw the deced in
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the passage
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of her houses that his
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homes were across and he was going towards the Stairs Dept. asked him if
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he was unwell he made no answer but seemed to have a Noise in his
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throat Dept. led him into her back Parlour Dept. a pisted him in
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in a ChairDept. then observed some blood upon the deced hands and
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on his Shirt CollarDept. suspected the deced had done some mischief to
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himself sent for Mr Chare a
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who came soon afterThat in
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about twenty minutes after Mr Chare and another person led the
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deced out of the House in order to take him to the Hospital.
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Sworn this 8th. day of February
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1799 before me}
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Elza Cripps
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Ann Wife of
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Nathaniel Dark
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a Lodger at No. 18
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Cock Lane
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maketh
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Oath that she in a day Name in the Hospitalthat between five and six
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O Clock on Monday Evening last the deced was led into the Ward Dept
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attends inthat the deced was placed in a Chair That soon after the
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of the Hospital came and examined the deced that he had a
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large cut or wound in his Throat which was droped by the Surgeons and
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the such was their put to BedThat Dept. set up with the deced that
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