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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ654">Prisoner</rs>
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for Debt in His Majesty's Prison the<lb></lb>
Bratley Compter maketh Oath that the deced <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1698-3">Mary Dove</rs>
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was brought<lb></lb>
to the said prison between the hours of four and five in the afternoon<lb></lb>
of yesterday by one Gobitas one of the Constables of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1721">City of London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
having been as Dept. understood from him charged with making a<lb></lb>
noise and disturbance in some part of the Citythat by desire of one<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ655">Underkeepers</rs>
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of the prison Dept. looked the deced into a Room.<lb></lb>
by herself in the said prison that the deced appeared to be very much intoxicated<lb></lb>
with Liquor which was the reason of locking the deced upthat<lb></lb>
between seven an Eight O Clock a Woman of the Name of Fanny<lb></lb>
O Dart being brought to the prison charged with being disorderly<lb></lb>
in the Streets Dept. went with her to Lock her up that Dept. put the said<lb></lb>
O Dart in the same Room with the deced. that the deced when Dept<lb></lb>
opened the Door appeared to be sitting on the Floor and appeared to<lb></lb>
be asleep Dept. after putting the said O Dart into the Room left<lb></lb>
them and locked the Doorthat about four O'Clock this Morning<lb></lb>
another Woman of the name of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1698-4">Bathia Atkinson</rs>
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being brought<lb></lb>
to the said Prison charged with having been disorderly was by<lb></lb>
Dept. taken at the same Room where the deced was that Dept.<lb></lb>
untouched the Door and put Atkinson into the Room that upon<lb></lb>
putting Atkinson into the Room Dept. touched the Door and went<lb></lb>
to Bedthat a little before Eight this Morning Dept. unlocked<lb></lb>
the Door of the Room wherein he had left the deced, O Dart<lb></lb>
& Atkinson that upon going into the Room Dept. found the deced<lb></lb>
hanging by something round her Neck fastened to a Staple<lb></lb>
in the Wall of the Room that Dept. fell the deced that he was<lb></lb>
quite dead and coldthat the other two Women appeared to be<lb></lb>
sitting upon that Floor Dept. went and acquainted Mr Roberts one<lb></lb>
of the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
keepers of his having found the deced before described<lb></lb>
that Mr. Roberts returned with Dept. to the Room where the deced<lb></lb>
was Dept. in the presence of Mr. Roberts asked O Dart & Atkinson<lb></lb>
of the had heard any thing of the deced in the course of the Night<lb></lb>
and they both answered No."</p>
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