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<p n="1413">London Deposition of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say at the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1473">Botolph without Aldersgate</rs>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1474">Aldersgate</rs>
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without in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
this 7th. day of September 1799 on view of<lb></lb>
the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1413-1">Isabella Lyons</rs>
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now here lying<lb></lb>
Dead</p>
<p n="1414"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1414-1">Thomas Wright</rs>
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a Lodger at the Red Cow <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1475">Cloth fair</rs>
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Side <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1476">Long Lane</rs>
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West<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1477">Smithfield</rs>
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one of the watchman of the parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1478">without Aldersgate</rs>
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maketh Oath That about one oClock<lb></lb>
this Morning Dept. being on his stand at the end of Barbican<lb></lb>
Court Barbican a Woman<del>some person</del>
came to him and told him<lb></lb>
the Old Saloon Woman (meaning the deced) whom he<lb></lb>
has known from Christmas last was lying Drunk in Long<lb></lb>
Lane Dept. crossed over <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1479">Aldersgate Street</rs>
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into <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1480">Long Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and found the deced in a sitting posture near the Wall<lb></lb>
of Mr. Bruces's premises<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a door or two down on the<lb></lb>
right hand side from <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1481">Aldersgate Street</rs>
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-That several people<lb></lb>
were round her and she appeared in a drunken<del>state</del>
<lb></lb>
Stupid state and incapable of speaking-Dept. with another<lb></lb>
Man moved the deced over to<del>the Court</del>
Barbican Court and<lb></lb>
placed her there in order to let her sleep and recover from<lb></lb>
her drunken state she being in right of Dept. Hand That<lb></lb>
at four oClock Dept. went off his Stand his time of watching<lb></lb>
being up That he endeavoured to rouse the deced that she<lb></lb>
still appeared to Dept. to be sleeping. That after Dept had<lb></lb>
gone to the watch house to leave his Coat and Lanthern<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
he returned again to the deced That she was then in a<lb></lb>
Stupid state and Dept. could not rouse her-Dept. went<lb></lb>
to the Mother of the deced and informed he of the deced being<lb></lb>
there Dept. returned to the deced and soon after the Mother<lb></lb>
of the deced came to the deced That she was still insensible<lb></lb>
Depts. left her<del>the</del>
Mother near her That about five oClock<lb></lb>
Dept. lifted the deced up that she then appeared to Dept<lb></lb>
to be dead-Dept. then left her with her Mother near her<lb></lb>
Dept. says he had spoke to the Mother after she came to the<lb></lb>
deced to procure a Surgeon but the declined getting out saying<lb></lb>
that the deced was only in a drunking fit and would recover</p>
<p n="1415"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1415-1">Thos Wright</rs>
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