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<p n="911"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witness taken at<lb></lb>
the Parish of Saint Sepulchre the<lb></lb>
8th. day of July 1791 on view of<lb></lb>
the Body of James Fowns then<lb></lb>
and there lying dead</p>
<p n="912"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n912-1">Alexander George Sinclair a</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ331">Prisoner</rs>
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for Dept in it is Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo980">Gaol of Newgate</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n912-3">James Fownes</rs>
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about eight or nine days that he was also a Prisoner<lb></lb>
in the said Gaol for DebtThat between the house of eight and nine<lb></lb>
in the Morning of Yesterday the instant Dept. was called into the<lb></lb>
lodge of the said Prison to look at the decedthat when he came<lb></lb>
into the lodge he found the deced lying in Mr. Pitt the under Keepers<lb></lb>
Armsthat he was quite speechless and appeared to be expiringthat<lb></lb>
Dept. endeavored to bleed the deced but without effect the blood came<lb></lb>
from himthat in a very little time the deced was quite dead<lb></lb>
that Dept. examined the deced very minutely afterwards and on<lb></lb>
inspection he found that the templar Arteries were burst which<lb></lb>
Dept. says may be occasioned by indden Joy or Grief by Sneazing<lb></lb>
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Dept. says the deced has been in a Consumptive habit of Body<lb></lb>
during the whole time he has known him</p>
<p n="913">Alex. Geor: Sinclair M.D.</p>
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