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<p n="217"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that is to<lb></lb>
say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Less in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo230">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this 8th. day of February 1799 on view of<lb></lb>
the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n217-1">Thomas Askins</rs>
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now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="218"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n218-1">James Sherwin</rs>
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of No. 38 James Street Bedford Row <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ69">Gentleman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about twenty years<lb></lb>
That<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he hath known the deced since he has been in London which<lb></lb>
is between seven and eight yearsthat the deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
was<lb></lb>
employed in a flatting Mill of Mr Scott of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo231">Giltspur street</rs>
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<del>Aldridge of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo232">Aldersgate Street</rs>
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</del>
<lb></lb>
and lately in a flatting Mill of Mr Aldridge of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo233">Aldersgate street</rs>
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<del>Scott of Giltspur Street</del>
That in<lb></lb>
the year 1791 the deced kept an Inn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo234">Uttoxeter</rs>
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in Staffordshire<lb></lb>
that at that time from what Dept. then saw of the deced and from<lb></lb>
what he had seen of the deced at different times since and what<lb></lb>
he has heard of the deced he has every reason to believe and think<lb></lb>
that the deced was at intervals deranged in his Mind</p>
<p n="219">Sworn this 8th. day of February<lb></lb>
1799 before me}</p>
<p n="220"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n220-1">Js. Sherwin</rs>
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</p>
<p n="221"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n221-1">Elizabeth</rs>
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wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n221-2">Richard Cripps</rs>
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of No. 38 Duke Street in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo235">Saint Bartholomew the Lop London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ70">Bushmaker</rs>
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maketh Oath that<lb></lb>
the deced has lodged in her house about two yearsthat about four<lb></lb>
o Clock on Monday afternoon last she saw the deced in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo236">the passage</rs>
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of her houses that his<lb></lb>
homes were across and he was going towards the Stairs Dept. asked him if<lb></lb>
he was unwell he made no answer but seemed to have a Noise in his<lb></lb>
throat Dept. led him into her back Parlour Dept. a pisted him in <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in a ChairDept. then observed some blood upon the deced hands and<lb></lb>
on his Shirt CollarDept. suspected the deced had done some mischief to<lb></lb>
himself sent for Mr Chare a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ71">Surgeon</rs>
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who came soon afterThat in<lb></lb>
about twenty minutes after Mr Chare and another person led the<lb></lb>
deced out of the House in order to take him to the Hospital.</p>
<p n="222">Sworn this 8th. day of February<lb></lb>
1799 before me}</p>
<p n="223"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n223-1">Elza Cripps</rs>
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</p>
<p n="224">Ann Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n224-1">Nathaniel Dark</rs>
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a Lodger at No. 18 <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n224-2">Cock Lane</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that she in a day Name in the Hospitalthat between five and six<lb></lb>
O Clock on Monday Evening last the deced was led into the Ward Dept<lb></lb>
attends inthat the deced was placed in a Chair That soon after the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ72">Surgeons</rs>
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of the Hospital came and examined the deced that he had a<lb></lb>
large cut or wound in his Throat which was droped by the Surgeons and<lb></lb>
the such was their put to BedThat Dept. set up with the deced that</p>
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