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Informations of Witnesses<lb></lb>
taken at the Parish of Saint John within<lb></lb>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1269">Southwark</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1270">Surrey</rs>
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on the 10th day of September 1791<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n1247-1">James Smith</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying dead.</p>
<p n="1248"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n1248-1">William Price</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ440">Pauper</rs>
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in the Poor house of the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint Olave situate in the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
John within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1271">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1272">Southwark</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that the deced has been in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1273">Workhouse</rs>
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about<lb></lb>
a Weekthat about the hour of ten in the Morning of<lb></lb>
Yesterday the ninth instt. on Dept. going into one of the<lb></lb>
Rooms<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Ward of said Work house called the Sick Ward<lb></lb>
he observed the deced in a sitting Posture between two<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
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in the said Wardthat Dept. thought<lb></lb>
the deced looked ill and pale in the face as if dying<lb></lb>
Dept. went<del>and informed</del>
out for the purpose of informing<lb></lb>
the first person he should meetthere being one person<lb></lb>
in the Room of the situation of the deced was inThat he met<lb></lb>
one Johnson a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ441">Pauper</rs>
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belonging to the <obscured></obscured>
Dept.<lb></lb>
told Johnson he thought the deced was dying and<lb></lb>
requested Johnson to go & look at himthat Johnson<lb></lb>
returned with Dept. to the decedthat they found<lb></lb>
the deced hanging by a piece of Cord fastened to the<lb></lb>
round the Leg of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a turn up Bedstead in the Room<lb></lb>
that the deced was quite Cold and deadthat<lb></lb>
about three or four days ago on Dept. going into the<lb></lb>
Room were the deced usually lay he saw the deced lying<lb></lb>
on a Bed in the Roomthat he appeared very ill and<lb></lb>
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in spirits and melancholy& Dept. understood the<lb></lb>
deced was too ill as to be unable to get out of his Bed<lb></lb>
without assistance</p>
<p n="1249">Sworn the 10th day of<lb></lb>
September 1791 before me}</p>
<p n="1250">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n1250-1">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Price</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1251"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n1251-1">Edward Martin</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ442">Pauper</rs>
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belonging to the Poor house of St.<lb></lb>
Hane situate in the Parish of saint John <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1276">Southwark</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
that he hath known the deced for about Eleven Daysthat<lb></lb>
the day the deced came to the Work house he was so ill as<lb></lb>
he led between two Men up to the Sick Ward belonging</p>
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