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Informations taken this Twenty fifth day of
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April 1766 at the Parish of
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on an Inquisition touching the Death
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lying Dead in the said Parish City
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Liberty and County.
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Catherine (Hart
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,) a Lodger with
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John
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Wastin
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the Deced has been a
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Ledger in the same House with Dept. about twelve months last
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post, and that
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has lived and
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Cohabited with Deced there for the last six months, Says
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that the Deced and said
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were after Intexided
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with Liquor, that they then frequently Quarralled and fought
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that the Deced was very Passionate. Says that she had been
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out upon a Sunday about five weeks ago and returned
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home in the Evening, was informed by the Maid Servant at
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the Bull's Head in Peter Street that she had been up to the
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Deced and
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with a quarter of Gin, that one of
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them was Bleeding and that the other lay upon the Floor
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Says that the Deced came down he next day and informed
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Dept. that she had reced to Wounds from
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with
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a piece of that Iron which Deced produced, and appeared to be
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about a quarter of a Yard long, and like the handle of a
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frying Pan, Says that the Deced sold the Iron to a Neighbour
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for a halfpenny, and that she this Dept. did not see the
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Deced Wounds, Says that the Deced told Dept. that she was
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several days to the Westmr. Infirmary and borrowed a Clock
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of Dept. to wear thither, and when Deced returned from the
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Infirmary she informed Dept. that her wounds had been
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dressed there, Says that during that time the Deced went
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about her Business, and after her return has said to Dept.
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that her Head smarted in Dressing, and that she believed
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had given her his last blow. Says that the Deced afternoon
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used to get drunk, and then appeared like a Mad Woman, Say
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that she continued, pretty much in the same State of Health
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until Monday last, when she was sent (as Dept. was informed)
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