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Informations of Witnesses<lb></lb>
taken at the Parish of Saint Mary<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo297">Aldermanbury</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo298">Ward of Cripplegate</rs>
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within in London aforesaid on the 14th.<lb></lb>
day of July 1792 on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n308-1">Thomas Smith</rs>
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now here lying dead.</p>
<p n="309"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n309-1">Edward Bateman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo299">No. 2 Sion Court</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n309-2">Phillip Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo300">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ101">Cordwainer</rs>
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maketh Oath that about ½ part nine<lb></lb>
O Clock last Night Dept. in consequence of an application<lb></lb>
made to him<del>do</del>
went to a house No. 2 Hand Court Phillip<lb></lb>
Lane that the people of the home being apprehensive<lb></lb>
the deced had done something to himself Dept. and one<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo301">Whittle</rs>
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who lodges in the Ground Floor went to the door<lb></lb>
of the one pair of Stairs Room of said house. that they<lb></lb>
called for the deced but receiving no answer they house<lb></lb>
the Door open that an going into the Room they found the<lb></lb>
deced hanging by a small Cord fastened to the top of one of<lb></lb>
the head parts of a Bedstead in the Room in his Shirt that<lb></lb>
Leaves quite Lead and Cold.</p>
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<p n="311">Sworn the 14th day of<lb></lb>
July 1792 before me}</p>
<p n="312"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n312-1">Charles Whittle</rs>
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of No. 2 Hand Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo302">Phillip Lane</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ102">Porter</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced Thomas<lb></lb>
Smith between eight and nine years. that the deced has lodged in<lb></lb>
the one pair of Stairs Room of the house Dept. River in about<lb></lb>
a year & an half that the deced buried his Wife about a<lb></lb>
twelve Month ago since which time Dept. has observed<lb></lb>
the deced very dull and Melancholy-that appeared often<lb></lb>
to mumble and talk to himself and sometimes when he<lb></lb>
has been talking to may one would burst out<obscured></obscured>
crying and<lb></lb>
express much grief at the loss of his Wife-that Dept.<lb></lb>
saw the deced about nine O Clock the Night before last that<lb></lb>
he came into Dept. Room and sayed he had been shaking<lb></lb>
hands with ever so many Devils. real Devils. that he<lb></lb>
locked very wild and Dept. really thought then that the<lb></lb>
deced was delirious-that the deced used to In<obscured></obscured>
very<lb></lb>
much and Dept. raing the Key inside of the desids Door last<lb></lb>
Night and not hearing the deced<obscured></obscured>
as usual he apprehend<obscured></obscured>
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