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Deposition of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London, that is to say at the Parish of<lb></lb>
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in the Ward of<lb></lb>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo493">London</rs>
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aforesaid the<lb></lb>
28th: day of March 1791 on view of the<lb></lb>
Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n508-1">John Stewardson</rs>
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now here lying<lb></lb>
Dead.</p>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n509-2">Lewis Geary</rs>
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of a Lodger at then<lb></lb>
<del>Bloghs</del>
in a House belonging to Mr. Blighs situate<lb></lb>
in Lamb Alley <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo494">Bishopsgate Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ175">Weaver</rs>
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maketh Oath that the hath attended as a Nurse to the<lb></lb>
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Court<lb></lb>
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needle Street <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ177">Brazier</rs>
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for these five Weeks<lb></lb>
hash-that he complained very much of a violent pain<lb></lb>
in his head-that sometime peused to get up at Seven<lb></lb>
O Clock in the Morning at other times the lay a Bed till<lb></lb>
12 or One O Clock in the day-that he often cryed out<lb></lb>
with a violent pain in his Stomach and med to say<lb></lb>
something was tearing him to pieces-that when the<lb></lb>
deced was taken with those pains he used often to be<lb></lb>
imensible and used to talk very wildly-saying that<lb></lb>
the sheriffis Officers were coming to take all his<lb></lb>
Property-that when Dept. has been in the Room to<lb></lb>
make the deced's Bed he used to talk very strangely<lb></lb>
desiring Dept. to left the Bed up that he might lay<lb></lb>
on the Matrass and that Dept. mights mother him<lb></lb>
with the Bed-That this day sennight two <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ178">Gentleman</rs>
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Friends of the deced persuaded the deced to go out<lb></lb>
that the deced appeared very much alarmed and sayed<lb></lb>
he was afraid for fear the Sheriffs Officers would come<lb></lb>
and take his property and his po<obscured></obscured>
which Dept: thinks<lb></lb>
was occasioned by the State of Mind the deced was in<lb></lb>
that there were no sheriffs Officers about the place Dept.<lb></lb>
thinks the deced was in very good circumstance but<lb></lb>
that he often of pressed his apprehnsions that the<lb></lb>
Should come to want and always appeared in a</p>
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