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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Botolph
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1794 on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead
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lodging at No. 4 Green Yard
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maketh Oath
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that he hath known the deced Mary Edmondson between
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eleven and twelve years that she was a
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about forty years of Agethat about ten O Clock last
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Wednesday Night Dept met the deced at the bottom of Rose-
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after a little conversation the deced asked Dept
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to give her a Dram which Dept. agreed to that they went
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into Mrs. Parisher's
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the Windmill
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that there the Dept. the deced and a Woman with a Child in
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her Arms who was in Company with the deced when Dept
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met her had a Glass of Gin eachthat when they had
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drank in they came out of that House and came up the
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Lane as far Mr. Hayses the Blue Boar when the deced
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wished Dept. to go into Mr Hayses to have another Glass
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the deced went in and Dept followed her the deced
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wished to have some more Gin Dept. refused and sayed
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he would have no more and left the deced thereshe
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appeared rather in Liquor at that time-that Dept. crossed
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and on the opposite side he met with one Bywater
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whom he had known some time that Dept. & Bywater
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went to one Allens the Queenshead
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that
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there they had a quartern of Gin and while they were
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drinking it the deced came in whom Dept believes had
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followed him that she insisted on having a Glass of the
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Gin which she had and drankthat upon quitting Allen's
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the deced insisted upon Dept. and Bywater going into
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and there she called for a
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quartern of Gin which they drank among them three
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that Bywater
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called for another Quartern of Gin which
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they drank among them threethat the deced had a Pipe
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in her Mouth smoaking at the same timethat they then
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quitted the
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in order for the deced to
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go homethat the deced leaned against the Shutters of
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the House and sayed she was very illDept. and
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