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London Deposition of Witnesses taken at
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London that is to say at the parish of Saint
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this 7th. day of September 1799 on view of
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a Lodger at the Red Cow
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maketh Oath That about one oClock
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this Morning Dept. being on his stand at the end of Barbican
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Court Barbican a Woman
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some person
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came to him and told him
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the Old Saloon Woman (meaning the deced) whom he
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has known from Christmas last was lying Drunk in Long
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Lane Dept. crossed over
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and found the deced in a sitting posture near the Wall
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of Mr. Bruces's premises
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a door or two down on the
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right hand side from
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-That several people
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were round her and she appeared in a drunken
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Stupid state and incapable of speaking-Dept. with another
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Man moved the deced over to
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the Court
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Barbican Court and
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placed her there in order to let her sleep and recover from
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her drunken state she being in right of Dept. Hand That
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at four oClock Dept. went off his Stand his time of watching
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being up That he endeavoured to rouse the deced that she
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still appeared to Dept. to be sleeping. That after Dept had
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gone to the watch house to leave his Coat and Lanthern
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and
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he returned again to the deced That she was then in a
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Stupid state and Dept. could not rouse her-Dept. went
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to the Mother of the deced and informed he of the deced being
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there Dept. returned to the deced and soon after the Mother
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of the deced came to the deced That she was still insensible
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Depts. left her
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the
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Mother near her That about five oClock
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Dept. lifted the deced up that she then appeared to Dept
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to be dead-Dept. then left her with her Mother near her
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Dept. says he had spoke to the Mother after she came to the
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deced to procure a Surgeon but the declined getting out saying
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that the deced was only in a drunking fit and would recover
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