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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the
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Work house of the Parish of Saint Olave situate in the parish
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this 20th: day of
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August 1793 on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead.
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Hannah Rearden a
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Edward Spawden
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in the Maze in the Parish of Saint Olave within
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maketh Oath that she hath
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lived as a
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in that House about four Months that the
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deced who Dept. understood to be a Corn Porter has lodged in
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said House about three Months that he slept in the Front
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Garrett of said House up three pair of Stairs wherein evere two
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Bed in one of which the deced causally slept some times alone and
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some times a
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with himthat
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between seven and eight O Clock on Saturday Night last Dept.
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Master asking her for the Key of the deceds Room Dept. recollected
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she had left the Key in the Door when she had made the Bed
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in the course of that Morning Dept. went up to the deceds Room
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and found the Key in the Door the Door quite open and a
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person in the Bed wherein the deced used to lye whom Dept.
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believes to be the dectedDept. locked the Door and took the Key
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down to her Master Mrs. Spawdenthat in about a quarter of
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an hour after a Soldier who had been billeted in the House about
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five Weeks and who slept in the other Bed in the same Room
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with the deced had the Key of the Deceds Room from Dept. and
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went up Stairs saying he was going to Bedthat about eleven
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O Clock on the Sunday Morning Dept. saw the Soldier standing in
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the Top Room of Dept. Master Home that an alarm had been
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made that the deced had hanged himself the Soldier sayed
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to several people who were then in the Top Room that he had
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left the deced asleep.
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her
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Phillis Wife of
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lodging at the House
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of Mr. Spawden abovementioned maketh Oath that she hath known
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the
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about two Months Dept. used to wash for
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him. Dept. and her Husband lodger in the two pair of Stairs front
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Dept. went up to the deced Room thinking he was not Well Dept
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