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<p n="811"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of a Witnesses taken at London that<lb></lb>
is to say at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the<lb></lb>
Less in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo815">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London <lb></lb>
aforesaid this 18th. day of June 1799 on view of <lb></lb>
the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n811-1">Sarah</rs>
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late <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ234">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n811-2">George Lewis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying dead.</p>
<p n="812"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n812-1">Edward Tring</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ235">Hairdresser</rs>
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and lodger at No.28 Playhouse<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo816">Yard</rs>
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Whitecross in the County of Middx maketh Oath that he rents<lb></lb>
the ground floor of the said House that the deced also lodged in the same house<lb></lb>
that about one oClock on Sunday Morning last Dept. being in his Appartment<del>up</del>
at work<lb></lb>
heard something fall heavy on the pavement on side his Shelter Window<lb></lb>
Dept. went out and saw a person lying on the pavement Dept. got a light<lb></lb>
and then found it to be the decedDept got assistance and took the<lb></lb>
deced into the House and up to her appartment two pair of Stairs from<lb></lb>
Room and layed her on her body that blood came from her right saw<lb></lb>
on which she had a large cut or Wound<del>that the back</del>
she was quite<lb></lb>
insensibleDept. left her there in core of her relations and went to BedDept understood<lb></lb>
the deced was taken to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo817">Mr. Bartholomew Hospital</rs>
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about an hour after<lb></lb>
where she died a little while afterDept says he has known the deced<lb></lb>
about six yearsthat she was an aged Womanthat the deced has been ill<lb></lb>
near six Months past and complained very much of a violent Head<lb></lb>
AcheDept says that from theE. T conduct and behaviour of the<lb></lb>
deced these two or three Weeks past he really thought her to be<lb></lb>
disordered in her Brain and that she was insane</p>
<p n="813">Sworn this 18th. day of June 1799<lb></lb>
before me.}</p>
<p n="814">E T</p>
<p n="815"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n815-1">Mary Lewis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ236">Spinster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ237">Daughter</rs>
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of the deced maketh Oath that her<lb></lb>
Father Brother the deced and herself slept in the same Room<del>legall</del>
some<lb></lb>
time past that her Mother<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
went to bed about ½ past 12<lb></lb>
on Saturday Night last that she appeared very unwell and fatigued<lb></lb>
that she has been ill and sickly three years past that she was very<lb></lb>
much afflicted with shortness of breath and has complained several<lb></lb>
Months past of a violent Head Ach and pain in her Headthat Dept<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ238">Father</rs>
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and<del>Mother</del>
Brother went to Bed soon after her Mother as abovementioned and Dept having in<lb></lb>
asked her Mother if she was comfortable who answered yes Dept lay<lb></lb>
down at the foot of the Bed her Father and Brother slept in being near<lb></lb>
to her Mother who slept in a Bed by hereof that Dept had not been<lb></lb>
long asleep when happening to awake she looked to her Mother Bed and<lb></lb>
sniping her Mother she immediately got up and going towards the<lb></lb>
Window found the sark up Dept took out of the Window and same</p>
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