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Deced about an hour, and that she perceived the
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Deced had been drooping for two days before
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says that she immediately went to Mr.
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Gilbert a Smith
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who lives the near Door to Deced, and called two Men
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Samuel Smith
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and another Person whose name she Knows
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not, who came with her into the Cellar, and one of them
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lifting up the Deced, and the other Cut him down
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and both together laid him upon the Bad in the Cellar.
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Sayds that Deced was then Dead, but not Cold, says
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that a Surgeon was sent for to bleed him, who immediately
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came, but the Deced bled very Little, says that she
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never heard of any Difference between the Deced.
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and his Wife.
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The Mark of
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Mary Ashmore
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Elizabeth Burnatt
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Servant to Mr. Brown
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Governour
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St. James's Workhouse
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on her Oath saith Yesterday Morning
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about Eight o Clock she carried a pair of Shoes to Deced
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(who was a
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Cobler
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) and on knocking at the Cellar Door,
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(where deced lodged) Deced Wife opened it, and on
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being asked if her Husband was at home, she replied
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that he was, but was afraid that she was Dead, and
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desired Deponent would go to call some Assistance,
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whereupon she immediately run and called two
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other Woman who came down into the Cellar with
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where they saw deced stand up right as they thought
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Deponent, but they did not go near him, says
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that one of the Women called two Men who came
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down, and on going to move the Deced to the Bed
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they perceived he was hanging, and immediately
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cut him down and laid the Deced on the Bed
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says that a Surgeon attempted to Bleed him but the
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Deced beld a very few Drops only, he being then Dead
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Elizabeth Bavne
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Ann Ewbank
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of the Deced on her Oath saith
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that on Wednesday Night last, about ten o Clock Deponent
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went to Bed with the Deced in their Cellar in the House
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of Mr. Beake in
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Oxford Road
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where they lodged says that She said did not observe
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him get out of Bed until between five and six o' Clock (as
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she believes) on Thursday Morning, says that she did not
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hear the Deced go out, nor any Noise in the Cellar, says
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that between seven & eight o Clock she heard some Person
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Knock at the Cellar Door, deponent being then in Bed,
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got up and opened the Door, and found a Woman who
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brought a pair of Shoes to be Mended, and asking for if deced,
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was at home, Deponent replied she could not tell but
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desired the Woman to come down, and when Deponent
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was got down and sitting upon the Bed, she perceived Deced
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in a Corner of the Cellar standing up as she apprehended,
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but afterwards suspected that he was Dead, she desired
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some body shod. be called, and two Woman immediately
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came down, and afterwards two Men were called down
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who cut the Cord by which the Deced hung and laid
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Deced on the Bed,
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says that a Surgeon attempted
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Says that she observed the Deced to have been Melancholy
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over since the beginning of May last, Occasioned as she
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believes by a fall that he then reced whereby he broke
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Dire of his Bibs, and that for ten days past Deced had
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been more Melancholy, says that Deponent and Deced
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lived very happy together, and very seldom had any
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Difference.
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Ann Ewbank.
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Severally Sworn the
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Day Year and Place
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abovementioned before me
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Tho. Prickard
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