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Informations of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
at the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo575">Saint Martin Vintry</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo576">the ward of Vintry</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the 21st. day of April 1792<lb></lb>
on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n534-1">Evan Owens</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying dead</p>
<p n="535"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n535-1">John Fenn</rs>
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of Ball Court Tooley Street in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo577">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo578">Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ219">Lighterman</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known<lb></lb>
the deced Evan Givens between five and six Months during<lb></lb>
the time he has kept the House that Dept. has been in the<lb></lb>
habit of calling out the deced, Hence to drink that for this<lb></lb>
Week part Dept has observed the deced to behave in a very<lb></lb>
odd manner and appeared very Melancholy and low<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ted that he named to neglect his business and when he<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
any person with Beer kept no dcore but used to go as if to<lb></lb>
do it and neglect<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
it which Dept. has observed several<lb></lb>
times that between the hours of Eleven and twelve Yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning Dept.<obscured></obscured>
lling in the deced Top Room reading the Mur<lb></lb>
a person name in and enquired for the deced the deceds <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ220">Daughter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a<obscured></obscured>
the Girl sayed her Father the deced was gone up Stairs to<lb></lb>
put a Clean Shirt on said person after waiting a little time<lb></lb>
requested the deced Daughter to go up and call her father<lb></lb>
the little Girl event up Stairs for that purpose and almost<lb></lb>
immediately came running down Stairs screaming and sayed<lb></lb>
her Father (the deced) was hanging by a Rope and the believed<lb></lb>
was Dead Dept. immediately event up Stairs and in a two<lb></lb>
pair of Stairs front Room he saw the deced hanging by a Rope<lb></lb>
fastened to some Railing over a Closed Door in said Room<lb></lb>
That he appeared black in the face and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
quite Cold that<lb></lb>
in about ten Minutes a Surgeon came into the Room and soon<lb></lb>
after some others came and then Dept. quitted the Rooms<lb></lb>
that the deced appeared quite died when Dept. left him</p>
<p n="536">Sworn the 21st day of<lb></lb>
April 1792 before me}</p>
<p n="537"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n537-1">John Fenn</rs>
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