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Deposition of a Witness taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Sepulchre
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aforesaid this 22nd. day of August 1793 on
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now here lying Dead
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for Debt in His Majestys
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maketh Oath that she hath known the deced
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Clarissa Harlow Allen since the 13th. day of December last
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that she was also a Prisoner for Debt in the said Gaol-
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that she was in an ill state of Health when the first came into
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the Gaol and continued in a declining state-ever since that she has
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to keep her Bed
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that she continued to get much worse since until this Morning
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when she departed this Life-that she was attended by
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of the said Gaol during her illness and had such
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Nourishing things as were necessary for her during her
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illness.
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