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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo859">Parish of Saint George the Martyr within</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo860">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo861">Southwark</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Surrey this 27th: day of June 1796 on view of<lb></lb>
the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n885-1">William Goodchild</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying Dead</p>
<p n="886"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n886-1">Charles Siss</rs>
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re of No. 32 White Street in the parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo862">Saint Ge</rs>
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ithin <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo863">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo864">Southwark</rs>
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Broom<lb></lb>
maker mak<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Oath that he hath known the deced<lb></lb>
William G<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
child ever since Dept. has known himself<lb></lb>
that he was also a Broommaker between sixty & seventy<lb></lb>
years of age that the deced Dept. and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n886-2">Thomas Barrow</rs>
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<lb></lb>
has worked together in a shop of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n886-3">William Brandons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a Broommaker in Kent Street these last Six Weeks.<lb></lb>
that Dept. saw the deced about five oClock in afternoon<lb></lb>
of Saturday last<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
come down the Yard & go into the<lb></lb>
shop were they usually worked Dept. was then employed<lb></lb>
in the yard that about twenty Minutes after Dept. went<lb></lb>
into the shop that the deced appeared in a sitting posture<lb></lb>
against the Wainscot of the Shop Dept. called Brooms<lb></lb>
the Name the deced used to go by but Dept. receiving<lb></lb>
mans was supposed here as a sleep That a little while after<lb></lb>
Dept. stooping down to pick up some stuff to make Broom<lb></lb>
with observed the countiance of the deced which appeared<lb></lb>
very pale Dept. then thought the deced was hanging by<lb></lb>
something Dept. being alarmed ran out of the Shop and called for assistance that<lb></lb>
another Man & Dept. went into the Shop that Dept.<lb></lb>
found the d<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
then hanging by or Cord fastened round<lb></lb>
an Iron twi<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
it which was bored into the Wainscot<lb></lb>
of the shop<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he was quite warm but appeared to<lb></lb>
be dead a Doctor came<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and opened a vein in the<lb></lb>
deceds Arm<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
cause any blood came from him he<lb></lb>
being quite Dead That the deced has lately been in the<lb></lb>
habit to assumbling and talking to himself and appeared<lb></lb>
very dull and melancholy Dept. don't think he appeared<lb></lb>
in his senses.</p>
<p n="887">Sworn this 27th. day of June<lb></lb>
1796 before me}</p>
<p n="888">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n888-1">Charles<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Sissmore</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="889"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n889-1">Thomas Barrow</rs>
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a Broommaker employed at Mr.<lb></lb>
Bromdens abovementioned maketh oath that he has heard the Deposition of<lb></lb>
the above Witness and says the same is true</p>
<p n="890">Sworn this 27 day of June<lb></lb>
1796 before me}</p>
<p n="891"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n891-1">Thomas Barrow</rs>
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his Mark</p>
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