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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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aforesaid this 10th day of
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April 1798 on view of the body of
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Sarah
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now here lying Dead.
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Francis Phipps
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maketh Oath that
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about eleven in the forenoon of Sunday last on application
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to Dept. he went to No.8 Maidenhead Court aforesaid Dept
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the House of Mr.
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Joseph Orme
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that Mr. Orme himself was the person who applied to Dept that he found the deced
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Sarah Orme
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whom he understood to be the Wife of the
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said Joseph Orme hanging by a Cord fastened round
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a Piece of Wood that goes across at the top of the one
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pair of Stairs landing place That some persons
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prevent cut the deced down That she appeared to
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be dead Dept. went after a Surgeon Dept. retuned
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to the House soon after the deced Dept. believes was
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taken into the one pair of Stairs of Room & Dept.
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says he has known the deced about twenty five years
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Dept. says the deced has appeared very dull and low
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and wavered very much within this fortnight past
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Dept. believes the deced and her Husband lived very
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sociable and comfortable together.
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Sworn this 10th day of April
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1798 before me}
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Francis Phipps
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Allen Holmes
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to Mr. Joseph Arms of Maiden-
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Mistress about five Minutes past seven on Sunday Morning
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last that she was then in Bed having called to Dept. the
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deced
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uperight in her Bed and stared very much
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as Dept. that she attered something
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very incoherent
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but what she sayed Dept. don't know that she never
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had called to Dept. or his fellow Apprentice to his knowledge
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before Dept. has been an
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to Mr. Orme about
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three years Dept. says about eight or nine Day past
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the deced has appeared very much deranged Dept.
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says he left his Mistress in bed as before mentioned about
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five Minutes before Seven Dept. pulled the Door to which god
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that no person but his Mistress was then
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in the House Dept. says his Master he believes went out
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about ½ past six same Morning & that his fellow Apprentice
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went out a little before seven.
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Sworn this 10th day of April
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1798 before me}
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