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<p n="1099"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that<lb></lb>
is to say as the Parish of Saint Botolph without<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1131">Aldersgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1132">Ward of Aldersgate</rs>
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without<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1133">London</rs>
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aforesaid this 29th day July 1799<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1099-1">John Bucknell</rs>
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<interp inst="LMCLIC65012_n1099-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
now<lb></lb>
here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1100"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1100-1">John Metcalf</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1134">No.2 little Montague Court little Britain</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ322">Glazier</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that between me and two on Saturday afternoon last<lb></lb>
Department goin home to the said House understood the deced who<lb></lb>
lodged in a three pair of Stairs Room of had been missing from Thursday<lb></lb>
Night last Dept went up to the deceds Room Door and found it<lb></lb>
fastened inside That soon after a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ323">Blacksmith</rs>
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came and forced the<lb></lb>
Door open Dept. and the deceds Down went into the Room and<lb></lb>
found the deced hanging by a Cord fastened to a Hook against<lb></lb>
the side of the wall that he was quite dead and appeared to have<lb></lb>
hanged some time Dept cut him down that the deced was a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ324">married</rs>
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Man but his Wife was out marring That the deced<lb></lb>
used frequently to come home intoxicated</p>
<p n="1101">Sworn this 29th. day of July 1799<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1102">John Aldergate</p>
<p n="1103"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1103-1">Sarah</rs>
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<interp inst="LMCLIC65012_n1103-1" type="surname" value="Edmonds"></interp>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65012_n1103-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1103-2">John Edmonds</rs>
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of a Layer at No.2 Montague Court<lb></lb>
aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ325">Poulterer</rs>
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maketh Oath that she is Daughter of the deced<lb></lb>
That for some years had the deced has given himself up to<lb></lb>
drinking and getting intoxicated and when sober Deponent<lb></lb>
and her Mother and family has considered him to be deranged<lb></lb>
and out of his Mind</p>
<p n="1104">Sworn this 29th day of July 1799<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1105">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1105-1">Sarah<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Edmonds</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1106"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1106-1">William Bewells</rs>
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a Lodger at No.2 Montague Court aforesaid<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ326">Shoemaker</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about<lb></lb>
seven years That the deced was very much in the habit of<lb></lb>
getting intoxicated That about four years ago Dept being was in the<lb></lb>
Room with the deced and his wife the deced attempted to cut<lb></lb>
his own throat with a knife he had in his hand but Dept.<lb></lb>
prevented him and wanted the knife from him that he was then<lb></lb>
very much intoxicated Deponent says that when the deced<lb></lb>
has got sober after being drunk he has known him to lock himself<lb></lb>
upon in a salky humour for two or three Days together dining<lb></lb>
which time he would speak to no one and Dept believes he used<lb></lb>
as there times to refrain from either at eating or drinking</p>
<p n="1107">Sworn this 29th. day of July 1799<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1108"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1108-1">William Bewell</rs>
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