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, on her
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Oath saith, That yesterday Morning between four and
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o' Clock Deponent awaked and saw the Deced who lodged
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with her in Mr.
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's House in Dacre Street, dressing
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herself in the room where they lay, Says that She
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desired Deced to come into Bed again which Deced
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refused to do saying that she must go down Stairs
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upon which Deponent dressed herself and went
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down Stairs after Deced and stopped her at the
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Street Door just as Deced was going out, Says that
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Deced came up Stairs again, and that they Drant
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Tea for Break fast together before Seven O' Clock,
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Dept. says that she went down Stairs into her Shop
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leaving the Deced in the Bedchamber upon the
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Second Floor, and Dept. returned several times
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after to the Deced to see how she did, Says that she
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afterwards between ten & Eleven O' Clock sent her
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little boy up to ask the Deced to come down Stairs
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who returned and said that she was coming down
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Upon her not coming Dept. in about a Quarter of an
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hour went up again and found the Door of the Room
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where the Deced Lodged, locked, and the Key on the
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in side of the Door, Says that she was much fighten'd there at
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and run down for a Hammer to break open the Door
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that in coming up Mr. Stone (who lodges in the First
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Floor in the same House) gave Dept. a Poker, with
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which Dept. forced open the Door, Mr. Stone being with
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Dept. Says that she then discovered the Deced hanging
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