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Depositions of a Witnesses taken at London that
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is to say at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the
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Less in the
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aforesaid this 18th. day of June 1799 on view of
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the body of
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George Lewis
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now here lying dead.
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Edward Tring
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and lodger at No.28 Playhouse
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Whitecross in the County of Middx maketh Oath that he rents
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the ground floor of the said House that the deced also lodged in the same house
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that about one oClock on Sunday Morning last Dept. being in his Appartment
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at work
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heard something fall heavy on the pavement on side his Shelter Window
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Dept. went out and saw a person lying on the pavement Dept. got a light
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and then found it to be the decedDept got assistance and took the
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deced into the House and up to her appartment two pair of Stairs from
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Room and layed her on her body that blood came from her right saw
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on which she had a large cut or Wound
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that the back
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she was quite
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insensibleDept. left her there in core of her relations and went to BedDept understood
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the deced was taken to
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about an hour after
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where she died a little while afterDept says he has known the deced
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about six yearsthat she was an aged Womanthat the deced has been ill
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near six Months past and complained very much of a violent Head
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AcheDept says that from theE. T conduct and behaviour of the
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deced these two or three Weeks past he really thought her to be
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disordered in her Brain and that she was insane
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Sworn this 18th. day of June 1799
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before me.}
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Mary Lewis
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of the deced maketh Oath that her
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Father Brother the deced and herself slept in the same Room
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some
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time past that her Mother
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went to bed about ½ past 12
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on Saturday Night last that she appeared very unwell and fatigued
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that she has been ill and sickly three years past that she was very
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much afflicted with shortness of breath and has complained several
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Months past of a violent Head Ach and pain in her Headthat Dept
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and
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Brother went to Bed soon after her Mother as abovementioned and Dept having in
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asked her Mother if she was comfortable who answered yes Dept lay
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down at the foot of the Bed her Father and Brother slept in being near
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to her Mother who slept in a Bed by hereof that Dept had not been
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long asleep when happening to awake she looked to her Mother Bed and
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sniping her Mother she immediately got up and going towards the
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Window found the sark up Dept took out of the Window and same
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