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May 1762

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Middlesex To wit


The Information of Mr. James Bearblock< no role >
taken before me this 6th day May 1762

Who being on Oath says that in the latter end of Febry last he
saw Mr. Geo: Sibson< no role > now Deceased; who called upon this Informt
in Town, that he spent the Evening with him at the Horn
Shoe in Newgate Street says that he was well acquainted
with said Mr. Sibson and that he then appeared better
in Health then he ever saw him in his Life that he
informed him he was Just come from Abroad, says that he
continued to see the said Mr. Sibson two or three times a week
for five Weeks, that in about three Weeks, the said Sibson
complained of not being well, but that he did not observe
him to Cough any mon than a Healthy Person does, says
that on Friday the 23d of April last he went down to
Longford to sea the said Mr. Sibson his Brother from
Winds or having informed him that he lay a Dining there
that he arrived at Longford between nine & ten that Evening
and sat up with Mr. Sibson all that Night that during that
time as Mr. Sibson tha Wife was lying beside her Husband
She told this Informant that if he Died She wou'd be Buried
with him, for that she had personed herself had taken
Opium upon some Bread & Butter, and that if that wou'd
not doe She wend take more, that she had got more in
the Room whereupon him wright the Maid went to
a Band Box in the Room and seemingly took out
some thing, and that he afterwards said Mr Sibson
Brother to the Deceased stop the said Maid Servant
as She was going out of the Room, says that after
this Mr. Sibson told him that if her Husband Died She
wou'd have him opened and wend take went his Heart
and Keep it buy her, say that he at that time
imagined from many circumstances that this




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