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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that
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on view of the Body of
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now
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here lying Dead
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John Metcalf
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No.2 little Montague Court little Britain
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Glazier
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maketh Oath that between me and two on Saturday afternoon last
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Department goin home to the said House understood the deced who
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lodged in a three pair of Stairs Room of had been missing from Thursday
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Night last Dept went up to the deceds Room Door and found it
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fastened inside That soon after a
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came and forced the
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Door open Dept. and the deceds Down went into the Room and
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found the deced hanging by a Cord fastened to a Hook against
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the side of the wall that he was quite dead and appeared to have
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hanged some time Dept cut him down that the deced was a
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married
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Man but his Wife was out marring That the deced
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used frequently to come home intoxicated
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Sworn this 29th. day of July 1799
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before me}
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John Aldergate
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Sarah
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wife of
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John Edmonds
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of a Layer at No.2 Montague Court
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aforesaid
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Poulterer
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maketh Oath that she is Daughter of the deced
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That for some years had the deced has given himself up to
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drinking and getting intoxicated and when sober Deponent
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and her Mother and family has considered him to be deranged
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and out of his Mind
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Sworn this 29th day of July 1799
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before me}
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her
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Sarah
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Edmonds
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Mark
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William Bewells
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a Lodger at No.2 Montague Court aforesaid
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Shoemaker
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about
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seven years That the deced was very much in the habit of
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getting intoxicated That about four years ago Dept being was in the
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Room with the deced and his wife the deced attempted to cut
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his own throat with a knife he had in his hand but Dept.
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prevented him and wanted the knife from him that he was then
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very much intoxicated Deponent says that when the deced
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has got sober after being drunk he has known him to lock himself
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upon in a salky humour for two or three Days together dining
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which time he would speak to no one and Dept believes he used
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as there times to refrain from either at eating or drinking
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Sworn this 29th. day of July 1799
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William Bewell
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