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<p n="504">the Door and the deced alive in Bed, who complaind<lb></lb>
he was very bad, and Dept. gave him some drink<lb></lb>
says they all assisted (except the Father) in taking<lb></lb>
the deced out of Bed and making the same, says<lb></lb>
the Father was unwilling, saying the deced did not<lb></lb>
know what be would, for that he had done it<lb></lb>
himself, but the bed had not been made. says She<lb></lb>
and the other two Women Stayed by the deced some<lb></lb>
time, says the deced told Dept. that his Father<lb></lb>
had thrown him out of Bed and into it again three<lb></lb>
or four times, says she is positive he was then<lb></lb>
sensible but<del>says</del>
the deced did not charge his Father<lb></lb>
with doing him any Injury by throwing him out &<lb></lb>
into the Bed, nor did Deponent see any Bruises then<lb></lb>
about the deced. says deced desired Deponent not to<lb></lb>
leave him and she continued with him for a quarter of an<lb></lb>
hour after, and Dept. and the Women went down<lb></lb>
together, but before she went down Stairs, the deced asked<lb></lb>
who laid with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
your Boy (meaning as Dept. understood<lb></lb>
an apprentice of her Husband's) to which she replyed<lb></lb>
why did be ask that Question, and he answered he<lb></lb>
should be glad to lay along with him; to which she<lb></lb>
said it would be inconvient, and she did not know<lb></lb>
where be could lay better than<obscured></obscured>
th his Father, says<lb></lb>
he told Deponent that his Father would Smother him<lb></lb>
to which Dept. said God forbid Matt., and be replyed<lb></lb>
he will, he will, says deced spoke so low the in Sure<lb></lb>
nobody in the Room could hear him besides Dept.<lb></lb>
who was close to the deced and attentive to his discourse <lb></lb>
says upon her going away he desired she would not leave<lb></lb>
him,<del>says</del>
that when the came down Stair she immediately<lb></lb>
informed her Sister and Mr. Chambers one of the Women<lb></lb>
who went with dept. in to deceds Room, what the deced<lb></lb>
had said to her. says that about eleven that Night the<lb></lb>
sent <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n504-1">James Kentish</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n504-2">Thomas House</rs>
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two of her<lb></lb>
Husbands apprentices to see how the deced did,<del>says</del>
that they<lb></lb>
returned in about a quarter of an hour, and acquainted<lb></lb>
dept. that deced was very bad and sweating by the Bed Cloaths<lb></lb>
being put too much over his Face, and that deced begged<lb></lb>
of them to remove them,<del>but the</del>
which they did, and<lb></lb>
the Father returned them again as they were before<lb></lb>
the deceds Complaint, saying he did not know<lb></lb>
what he would be at, says She did not go up again<lb></lb>
to deced till between twelve and one o' Clock the<lb></lb>
Next Morning, when she heard Somebody come in<lb></lb>
doors when it proved to be Mr. Moore with a lighted<lb></lb>
Candle in his Hand, altho' she had been informed<lb></lb>
before by the said apprentices that they left him<lb></lb>
when they came down Stairs in Bed with his Son<lb></lb>
the deced, says She immediately took a Candle and<lb></lb>
followed Mr. Moore up stairs to his Room that before he<lb></lb>
opened the Door She asked him how his Son did,<lb></lb>
he said he was well enough, she asked him what<lb></lb>
he meant by him, he replyed he was very happy,<lb></lb>
she asked him there if he was dead, and he answered<lb></lb>
he was says she stood at the Room door but did not go in<lb></lb>
and after Sending for her Sister<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Deponent her<lb></lb>
Sister and the two Apprentices went into the Room<lb></lb>
and discovered the deced<del>fo</del>
in the Middle of the Bed<lb></lb>
folded up in the Bed Cloaths viz: two Blankets and a Quilt entirely covered that they were<lb></lb>
some minutes before they could get him out and<lb></lb>
on taking deced out they observed the right Side of<lb></lb>
his Face near the right Temple his right Shoulder and right Hip bruised<lb></lb>
but no Cuts wounds or Blood says the deceds face<lb></lb>
did not appear to be black nor did be appear<lb></lb>
black about the throat or else where except where they saw<lb></lb>
the Bruised. Says that Dept. and her Sister helped to<lb></lb>
lay the deced strait, says they continued in the<lb></lb>
Room till the two Women who lodged in the House<lb></lb>
Mrs Chamber and Mrs Oker house came into the<lb></lb>
Room and by their Assistance Dept. and her Sister<lb></lb>
removed the Feather bed, and laid the deced upon<lb></lb>
the sacking, by this time she believes it might be<lb></lb>
two o' Clock, says the Father was all the while in<lb></lb>
the Room, says She & her Sister washed the deced and<lb></lb>
her Husband coming home at the above time she<lb></lb>
prevailed on him to go up Stairs and see the Corpse<lb></lb>
that on her Husbands observing the Bruised he asked</p>
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