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<p n="442"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo417">London</rs>
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aforesaid this 7th. day of March<lb></lb>
1794 on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n442-1">Mary Edmondson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="443"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n443-1">Rice Powell</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ130">Taylor</rs>
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lodging at No. 4 Green Yard<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo418">Eastsmithfield</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo419">Middx</rs>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that he hath known the deced Mary Edmondson between<lb></lb>
eleven and twelve years that she was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ131">Married Woman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
about forty years of Agethat about ten O Clock last<lb></lb>
Wednesday Night Dept met the deced at the bottom of Rose-<lb></lb>
-<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n443-2">mary Lane</rs>
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after a little conversation the deced asked Dept<lb></lb>
to give her a Dram which Dept. agreed to that they went<lb></lb>
into Mrs. Parisher's<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Windmill<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo420">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that there the Dept. the deced and a Woman with a Child in<lb></lb>
her Arms who was in Company with the deced when Dept<lb></lb>
met her had a Glass of Gin eachthat when they had<lb></lb>
drank in they came out of that House and came up the<lb></lb>
Lane as far Mr. Hayses the Blue Boar when the deced<lb></lb>
wished Dept. to go into Mr Hayses to have another Glass<lb></lb>
the deced went in and Dept followed her the deced<lb></lb>
wished to have some more Gin Dept. refused and sayed<lb></lb>
he would have no more and left the deced thereshe<lb></lb>
appeared rather in Liquor at that time-that Dept. crossed<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo421">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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and on the opposite side he met with one Bywater<lb></lb>
whom he had known some time that Dept. & Bywater<lb></lb>
went to one Allens the Queenshead <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo422">King<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Street</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
there they had a quartern of Gin and while they were<lb></lb>
drinking it the deced came in whom Dept believes had<lb></lb>
followed him that she insisted on having a Glass of the<lb></lb>
Gin which she had and drankthat upon quitting Allen's<lb></lb>
the deced insisted upon Dept. and Bywater going into<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo423">Rosemary Branch</rs>
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and there she called for a<lb></lb>
quartern of Gin which they drank among them three<lb></lb>
that Bywater<del>Dept.</del>
called for another Quartern of Gin which<lb></lb>
they drank among them threethat the deced had a Pipe<lb></lb>
in her Mouth smoaking at the same timethat they then<lb></lb>
quitted the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo424">Rosemary Branch</rs>
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in order for the deced to<lb></lb>
go homethat the deced leaned against the Shutters of<lb></lb>
the House and sayed she was very illDept. and</p>
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