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Information of Witnesses taken this thirteenth
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on an Inquisition taken on View
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of the Body of
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Rebecca Carpenter
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lying Dead in the
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said Parish City Liberty and County.
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Thomas Lack
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Apprentice
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to Mr. Higgs at the Horse
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Ferry Westmr.
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Waterman
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on his Oath saith that Yesterday
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Afternoon between one and two o'Clock, this Deponent
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Roger Dolapp
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William Morgan
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two Watermen
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being on a Boat on the
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River Thames
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Rowing through the second Arch from the Westmr. Shore
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under westmr. Bridge. the abovementioned
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William
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said he saw a Petty coat, upon which Dept.
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and the other Watermen Shoved the Boat back, and
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said
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Roger Delapp
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put the Hook belonging to the Boat
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in the Water and brought up the Deced, Says that
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they immediately pulled the Deced to the Shore at
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Westmr. Bridge in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr.
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no Marks of Violence on the Deced.
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Thos. Lack
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Thomas Foster
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Watch case maker
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at Mr. Bell in wood
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Street London on his Oath saith, That he has Known
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the Deced about two Years and Frequently used to
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call upon her, Says that he called upon Deced last
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Thursday Evening, This Dept, says that the Deced used
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to complain to him of the want of Business, and that
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she in a particular Manner lamcuted it on Thursday
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Night, and said that she had many Bills that would
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be due very soon, that she was not able to pay them
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And on that Account did not know what to do
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Says that she asked Dept. Advice, and that he adviced
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her to make some Shift this Summer, if she could, and
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that he hoped Business would answer better in the
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Winter, Says that the Deced had a Cold and had
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been in a Fever
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for somedays, Says that the
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Deced was greatly concerned on Accont. of her Debts
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and was apprehensive of being Arrested for them
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and this Dept. says that the Deced owed him money
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Thomas Foster
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Jonathan Radcliffe
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at Mr. Nightingall a Dry Salter
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in Love Lane
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Aldermanbury
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London in the Capacity
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of Clerk, on his Oath saith, that he has known the Deced
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about twelve months, Says that about Ten o'Clock,
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on Thursday Night he called on the Deced in Parliamt.
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Street Says that he found her in a Fever as she had
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been for a week before, Says that the Deced was
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low Spirited and Melanchely, and that Miss Poland
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who lived with Deced told Dept. that the Deced's Affair.
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were bad, and that the Deced fretted much on that
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Account and believed that it was the Chief cause of
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her Complaint upon which Dept. had a great deal of
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Conversation with Deced on that Subject and advised
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her to State her Account, Says that Deced complaind
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of being much in Debt, about on hundred and
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twenty or thirty pounds, and that she could not tell here to pay
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them, and threatened to abscond and leave the whole in
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the Shop for the Creditors, Says that he advised her not
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to do so but to draw out a State of her Debts and
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write to her Creditors, which she at last promised to
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to the next morning, Says that the Deced said it
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must be done before Monday, that there was be Bills then
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due, and that she wod. not be able to see her Creditors
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Says that Miss Bland went to Bed before Eleven o'Clock
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and that Depont. went away about a Quarter after
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Eleven
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