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for Debt in His Majesty's Prison the
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Bratley Compter maketh Oath that the deced
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was brought
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to the said prison between the hours of four and five in the afternoon
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of yesterday by one Gobitas one of the Constables of the
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having been as Dept. understood from him charged with making a
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noise and disturbance in some part of the Citythat by desire of one
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of the
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of the prison Dept. looked the deced into a Room.
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by herself in the said prison that the deced appeared to be very much intoxicated
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with Liquor which was the reason of locking the deced upthat
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between seven an Eight O Clock a Woman of the Name of Fanny
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O Dart being brought to the prison charged with being disorderly
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in the Streets Dept. went with her to Lock her up that Dept. put the said
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O Dart in the same Room with the deced. that the deced when Dept
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opened the Door appeared to be sitting on the Floor and appeared to
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be asleep Dept. after putting the said O Dart into the Room left
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them and locked the Doorthat about four O'Clock this Morning
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another Woman of the name of
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being brought
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to the said Prison charged with having been disorderly was by
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Dept. taken at the same Room where the deced was that Dept.
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untouched the Door and put Atkinson into the Room that upon
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putting Atkinson into the Room Dept. touched the Door and went
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to Bedthat a little before Eight this Morning Dept. unlocked
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the Door of the Room wherein he had left the deced, O Dart
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& Atkinson that upon going into the Room Dept. found the deced
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hanging by something round her Neck fastened to a Staple
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in the Wall of the Room that Dept. fell the deced that he was
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quite dead and coldthat the other two Women appeared to be
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sitting upon that Floor Dept. went and acquainted Mr Roberts one
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of the
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keepers of his having found the deced before described
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that Mr. Roberts returned with Dept. to the Room where the deced
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was Dept. in the presence of Mr. Roberts asked O Dart & Atkinson
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of the had heard any thing of the deced in the course of the Night
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and they both answered No."
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