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lying Dead as follow
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belonging to Mr. Frost let out in Tenements on his Oath Says
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that last Night at past 10 o'Clock he came home and went up
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Stairs, and found the Door on a Far and pushed it open, and
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went to feel whether the Bedsted was turned down, but found it
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was not, Deponent then went to the Chimney piece and Struck
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a light and light a Candle, and then looked round him and
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Saw his Wife hanging, and being very much Surprized went out
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of the room into the next and called the People that were there
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and then went to Mr. Morris's China Man in Great Lacon Street to
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Some People that he had been in Company with, and they came
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back with him, Deponent left his Wife in the Room about 8
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o'Clock in the Morning and drank a Dram together, and about
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9 o'Clock in the Morning he met her in
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was subject to Liquor.
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Victualler
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on his Oath
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Says that the Deceased came Yesterday about 4 o'Clock in the
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Afternoon with a Chair in her hand and she ask'd Deponent
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if he did not think she had bought a Bargain, he said he did
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not know what she had given for it, and she said Nine pence
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and Deponent let her have a Glass of Gin for scowering her
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Rooms the Deponent being the Landlord of the House, did
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not make any particular Observation.
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Mary Norton
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William Norton
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on her Oath Says That
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She Saw the Deceased Yesterday Morning between 10 & 11 oClock
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in
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the
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in the Passage of their House, the Deceased said I ask your
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