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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the Parish of
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now
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here lying Dead.
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Christopher Marbun
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a Hat Dyer & a Lodger at No. 3
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Meeting house Walk Snows Fields
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maketh Oath
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that between the hours of Six & seven last Night Dept. being
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at Work in this Maters Shop (Mr. Turneys) little Maze Court
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a Woman who keeps a House near the back
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Door of Dept. Parters premises came & requested Dept.
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to get up to the one pair of Stairs window of her house
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saying the belived or thought her Lodger (meaning the deced)
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had done something to herself Dept. got a Stool & got on it
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& from thence on the pent house over the Door & from thence
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he looked in at the Window which was open & saw the deced hanging by
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a Cord against the wainscoat in the Room Depts got down
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& gave the alarm in a little while after Dept. & one of his
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James Wisham
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) went to the one pair of Stairs Room Door wherein the deced was that the Door
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was fastened inside James Wisham forced the Door open
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& went into the Room where the deced was
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that she was hanging by a Cord fastened through a Hole in
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the Wainscot of the Room
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that Wisham cut her down
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that she appeared quite dead
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Sworn this 2d. day of July 1796
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before me.}
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his
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Christopher
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Marbun
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Mark
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Sarah Wife of
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John Uanderwell
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of No. 1 little Mage Court
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maketh oath that the deced and her husband
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(who is a journey man
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) have lodged in a one pair of stairs
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Room in Deponents house six Weeks. That during the time the
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deced & her husband have lodged at Depts they have
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often cried and expressed great anxilty & regret on account
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of a Child they sayed had been accidentally burned to Death
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a little while before they came to lodge at Depts house.
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that the deced in particular used often to cry about it
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& express great sorrow & Dept. often thought that she was
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deranged on account there of that the deced the drank ten
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with Dept. abot. six oClock last Night & after ten went up
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to her Room that she came down soon after & asked Dept. for
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after Iron which Dept. desired he to take. that she went
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up Stair to her Room & soon after Dept. heard something
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