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Deposition of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Mary
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at Hill in the Ward of Billings gate in
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now here lying Dead
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to Mr. Morton of
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maketh Oath that about twelve in the Night of Monday
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last the deced came to Dept. Mistress'
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in Dark house
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Lane aforesaid that she was sitting on the Tap Room near
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The Fire that she appeared to be an Old Woman about
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sixty years of Age or upwardsthat a Man who was in
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the Tap Room at the same time came to Dept. as the Bar
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and asked Dept. for a Bed Dept. asked him for whom
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he sayed for him and his Wife Dept. asked him where
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was he sayed here she is and Jointed to the
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decedDept. went to the deced and asked her of that
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Man was her Husband she sayed yes
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Dept sayed
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to the deced why is that your Husband you appear to be
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a very old Woman the deced sayed "Yes there is not much
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odds in our Ages the I appear older there is not above
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one or two year difference in our Agethat the deced
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appeared very chearful
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to Dept. afterwards about the Bed Dept not having determined whether
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they should have a Bed that the second time he came Dept.
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told him he might have the Bed and he payed Dept.
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took her by the Arm and sayed come my Dear you are
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tired go to Bed that to the best of Dept. recollection the
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Man and the deced had a Pint of Pave and a penny
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tooth of Gin which they drank togetherthat one of the
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Waiters
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Dept. believes took on Candle and lighted the
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Man and the deced up Stairs to go to Bed-that they
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Man had she dress of al
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reenwich Pensioner or and
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the deced sayed that he was soDept. saw nothing
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Sworn this 19th: day of December 1793
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before me}
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