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dead
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maketh Oath that on Monday last about ½ had seven in the
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Evening Dept: and deced were employed in unloading a
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Cart Load of Kops in the Yard of the said Inn that the Dept.
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was employed in carrying the Hops from the Cart to a
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comeing down the Ladder from the Waggon he
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heard something fall and on turning his head he saw a
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Pocket of Hops
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fall from the Cast wherein the deced
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was and on going
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to the
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near the Cast he found the deced
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lying on the Ground and a pocket of Hops near him that
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a Pocket of Hops weight about One hundred & sixty
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eight Pounds weight-that he went to the deced he appeared
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hurt that he begged Dept. to let him lay as he thought he
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should be better saying at the same time that he was hurt
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that Dept. and one Thomas Titton helped the deced into the
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Tap Room of
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and Dept. left him there and
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returned to his Work-that about eight O Clock in the same
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Evening Dept. a fisted to carry him to Bartholomews Hospital
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and has not since seen him since but has heard the deced
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died Yesterday Morning-that no person was near the deced
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at the time he saw him lying on the Ground as before stated.
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Sworn the 23rd. day of September
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1790 before me}
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T Shelton Corr.
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