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<p n="1665"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1303">Southwark</rs>
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Deposition of Witnesses taken at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1304">Saint John within the Borough of Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1305">County of Surrey</rs>
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this 14th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1793 on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1665-1">Robert Barron</rs>
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now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="1666"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1666-1">Robert Cooper</rs>
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a Hat maker lodging as No. 37 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1306">Bermondsey</rs>
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Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1307">Southwark</rs>
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maketh Oath that between the hours of eight<lb></lb>
and nine yesterday Morning Dept. passing along <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1308">Bermondsey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Street just on he got to the House No. 48 he heard a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ524">Woman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
exclaim O'h my husband My husband in dead Dept. stops the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ525">Woman</rs>
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within sayed Oh Lord he has hanged himself Dept.<lb></lb>
immediately went into said Home which Dept. understood<lb></lb>
was kept by the deced and on going into a Wash house in the<lb></lb>
Yard of the House he found the deced hanging by a piece of<lb></lb>
Cord fastened to a Hook in the Door Port of the Wash house within side<lb></lb>
that the Hook being a little way from the Ground the deced<lb></lb>
appeared in a sitting postureDept. cut the deced down<lb></lb>
that after he had cut him down he took the Cord from round<lb></lb>
his Neckthat he was quite dead. and cold all over him except<lb></lb>
the pit of his Stomach which felt a little warm Dept. thinks<lb></lb>
the deced must have been hanging some timethat a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ526">Woman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who appeared to be the Wife of the deced and who was the<lb></lb>
same Dept. apprehend he had heard crying out as before<lb></lb>
stated was standing in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1309">the passage</rs>
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of the House and appeared<lb></lb>
very much concerned and affected on the occassion and<lb></lb>
cryed out very muchthat some people came in about<lb></lb>
the same timethat a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ527">Doctor Clark</rs>
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came in and fell the deced<lb></lb>
pulse sayed he could do nothing for him for that he must have<lb></lb>
hanged some time.</p>
<p n="1667"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1667-1">Robt Cogner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1668"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1668-1">John Davidge</rs>
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of No. 239 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1310">Bermondsey</rs>
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Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo1311">Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ528">Cordwainer</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced<del>about</del>
<lb></lb>
between three and four Months since he first came to the House<lb></lb>
he now lyes dead inthat upon the alarm being given Yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning he went to the deced House and was present when<lb></lb>
the last Witness cut the deced down Dept. has observed the<lb></lb>
deced since he came into the Neighbourhood to appear very<lb></lb>
dull and Melancholy and has seen him walking backwards<lb></lb>
and forwards in his Shop very rejected and Melancholy.</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n1669-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Davidge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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