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The Information of Mr.
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James Bearblock
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taken before me this 6th day May 1762
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Who being on Oath says that in the latter end of Febry last he
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saw Mr.
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now Deceased; who called upon this Informt
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in Town, that he spent the Evening with him at the Horn
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Shoe in
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says that he was well acquainted
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with said Mr. Sibson and that he then appeared better
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in Health then he ever saw him in his Life that he
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informed him he was Just come from Abroad, says that he
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continued to see the said Mr. Sibson two or three times a week
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for five Weeks, that in about three Weeks, the said Sibson
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complained of not being well, but that he did not observe
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him to Cough any mon than a Healthy Person does, says
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that on Friday the 23d of April last he went down to
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to sea the said Mr. Sibson his Brother from
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Winds or having informed him that he lay a Dining there
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that he arrived at Longford between nine & ten that Evening
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and sat up with Mr. Sibson all that Night that during that
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time as Mr. Sibson tha Wife was lying beside her Husband
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She told this Informant that if he Died She wou'd be Buried
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with him, for that she had personed herself had taken
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Opium upon some Bread & Butter, and that if that wou'd
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not doe She wend take more, that she had got more in
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the Room whereupon him wright the Maid went to
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a Band Box in the Room and seemingly took out
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some thing, and that he afterwards said Mr Sibson
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Brother to the Deceased stop the said Maid Servant
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as She was going out of the Room, says that after
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this Mr. Sibson told him that if her Husband Died She
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wou'd have him opened and wend take went his Heart
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and Keep it buy her, say that he at that time
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imagined from many circumstances that this
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