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Deposition of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the parish of Saint Mary<lb></lb>
at Hill in the Ward of Billings gate in<lb></lb>
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aforesaid the 19th. day of December<lb></lb>
1793 on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2451-1">Elizabeth Padgaster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="2452"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2452-1">Sarah Watson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ792">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Morton of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2053">the Queenshead</rs>
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Dark house Lane in the parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Mary as Hill in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2054">Billingsgate</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that about twelve in the Night of Monday<lb></lb>
last the deced came to Dept. Mistress'<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2452-2">s House</rs>
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in Dark house<lb></lb>
Lane aforesaid that she was sitting on the Tap Room near<lb></lb>
The Fire that she appeared to be an Old Woman about<lb></lb>
sixty years of Age or upwardsthat a Man who was in<lb></lb>
the Tap Room at the same time came to Dept. as the Bar<lb></lb>
and asked Dept. for a Bed Dept. asked him for whom<lb></lb>
he sayed for him and his Wife Dept. asked him where<lb></lb>
his <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ793">Wife</rs>
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was he sayed here she is and Jointed to the<lb></lb>
decedDept. went to the deced and asked her of that<lb></lb>
Man was her Husband she sayed yes<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dept sayed<lb></lb>
to the deced why is that your Husband you appear to be<lb></lb>
a very old Woman the deced sayed "Yes there is not much<lb></lb>
odds in our Ages the I appear older there is not above<lb></lb>
one or two year difference in our Agethat the deced<lb></lb>
appeared very chearful<del>and</del>
that the Man came twice<lb></lb>
to Dept. afterwards about the Bed Dept not having determined whether<lb></lb>
they should have a Bed that the second time he came Dept.<lb></lb>
told him he might have the Bed and he payed Dept.<lb></lb>
& shilling for it the Man then went to the deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
took her by the Arm and sayed come my Dear you are<lb></lb>
tired go to Bed that to the best of Dept. recollection the<lb></lb>
Man and the deced had a Pint of Pave and a penny<lb></lb>
tooth of Gin which they drank togetherthat one of the<lb></lb>
Waiters <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2452-3">Richard Clayton</rs>
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Dept. believes took on Candle and lighted the<lb></lb>
Man and the deced up Stairs to go to Bed-that they<lb></lb>
Man had she dress of al<obscured></obscured>
reenwich Pensioner or and<lb></lb>
the deced sayed that he was soDept. saw nothing<lb></lb>
more of the deced or the Man after ward</p>
<p n="2453">Sworn this 19th: day of December 1793<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="2454"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2454-1">Sarah Watson</rs>
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