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Head and a Pistol in his right hand with the Muzzle to his right ren
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the Pistole or the Bed lay him
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and appeared
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to Deponent to be quite DeadDeponent did not Examine
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the Wormbut believes the Worned on the Head was
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occasioned by the Deceds discharging the Pistol, and that
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that was the cause of his DeathDeponent says the
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Deced said at one time there were Several ill looking Fallow
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in the Room, and he would shoot them, at another time
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that there wore
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in the Room, and once said
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whol time Ladies one here, at all of which times when
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the Deced said so, No Persons were in the Room last two
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Deced & herself and she has often heard him talk
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otherwise in
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and she is fully of Opinion
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From her observation of him at Particular times that he
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was disordered in his Mind.
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E Harday
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Sarah May Gosling
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or her oath saith she has been Sewant to the Deced for
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about a Fortnight, was his Cook, used to go into the
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Deced Room once or times a Day, and when her Follow
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Servant went or any Eve and, she went up to sit in the
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Room till her Returnthe deced would some times lath
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to her sensibly about the County particularly Walter
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upon Thomas where she came from, and Sometimes he
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has altered much, Saying there were Ladies in the Room
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and Sometimes that there were Gentleman in the Room
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that no Persons were then in the Room brit she and the
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Deced, and she has pulled the Bed Certain a side and
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described to him what Flowers was in the Curtains, he
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has then said
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so it is, those Curtains cost me a great
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deal of Money, how easy it is to he Deceived, and
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then Said he believed it was the Bedcross of his Head.
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and she has great reason to believe that he was at times
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not in his Perfect Mind, and says that her fellow
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Servant has in conversation with her said she between
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his Disorder had laid hold of his HeadDeponent on
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hearing the Report of the Pistol went up into the
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Deced Room with her fellow Sew out and Mr Moor and the Doctor
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and saw the Bed Clothes Hoody about the Deced's
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