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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ794">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65006_n2455-2">Richard Clayton</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65006_occ795">Servant</rs>
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to Mr.<lb></lb>
Morton of the Queenhead Dark house Lane aforesaid<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that about ½ part nine in the Morning of<lb></lb>
Tuesday last a Man in the dress of a <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65006_geo2055">Greenwich</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came out of the Room No. 4 on the second Floor in Mr. Morton<lb></lb>
House the same Room Dept. afterwards saw the deced in<lb></lb>
that he had all his Cloaths and his Halon and desired Dept.<lb></lb>
to tell the Waiter to bring him a Pint of Pare to the Room he<lb></lb>
came out of that about ten Minutes after the Man came<lb></lb>
down to the Tap Room had a Pint of Pare which he took<lb></lb>
up Stairs and went into the Room (wherein the deced<lb></lb>
was) withinthat about a quarter of an how after the<lb></lb>
said Man came down Stairs and went out as the Street<lb></lb>
Door and Dept. has seen nothing of the said Man since<lb></lb>
that at the time he went out Dept. did not observe any<lb></lb>
charge in his Countenance or appearance whatever<lb></lb>
different from what she had observed before-<del>Dept. went</del>
<lb></lb>
that about eleven OClock Dept. went to the Room Door<lb></lb>
wherein the deced was and opened it Dept. halloed into<lb></lb>
the Room and sayed it was eleven OClock but receiving no<lb></lb>
answer Dept. concluded the deced was asleep-that<lb></lb>
about ½ part One Dept. went again opened the Door<lb></lb>
and went in (it being a dark Room Dept. had taken a<lb></lb>
Candle in with her) and on going to the deced Dept. found<lb></lb>
her Dead in the Bed a<del>that it Cold</del>
Dept. being alarmed<lb></lb>
called the Cook Maid Pegg who returned with Dept. to<lb></lb>
the Room to the deced Dept. then touched her that she was<lb></lb>
quite Coldthat she layed straight in the Bed had all<lb></lb>
her Cloaths on except Shoes & Stockings that they found a Womens Pocket under the<lb></lb>
deceds Head-that there were only some papers a Thimble<lb></lb>
and Camb in the Pocket-that a<del>Mr. Boxed</del>
Surgeon who<lb></lb>
had been sent for came that the examined the deced sayed<lb></lb>
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she was quite dead and therefore nothing could<lb></lb>
be done for her but that there were no Marks of violence<lb></lb>
about her</p>
<p n="2456">Sworn this 19th. day of December 1793<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
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