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Pardon for disturbing You last Night, Deponent said I know
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nothing of it I heard no disturbance, she answered I and my
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Husband had Some Words, about 5 or 6 o'Clock in the Evening
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of the Same Day Deced borrowed a pail & a hair Broom of
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this Deponent to clean her Room, and in about half an hour
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brought them back and returned her Thanks saying she would
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not trouble her much longer for she intended to buy some
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Deponent says about ½ after 10 in the Evening the Deced's Husband burst open the Room
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Door where Deponent lodged with a Candle in his hand and
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Cried Neighbour, Neighbour Come and See Come and See and
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Clapping her hands together and desired Deponents' Husband
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to call Mr. Frost the Landlord, and then said he would go he
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his Frainds.
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The Mark of
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Mary Norton
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Richard Wabb
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Carver & Gilder
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who lodges at Mr. Frosts in
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his Oath Says that last Night about a quarter before 11, a
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Mom came into Mr. Frosts and said a Woman was hanging
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next Door, Deponent went and cut the Deced down, she
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was hanging with her Trace to the Waniscot, with the Rope or
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Cord fastned to a Wooden Pin fixed in a frame of Pins and fastened
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to the Wainscot, a Chair was standing by her, and one of her feet
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was resting on the Chair by her toe, when cut down she appeared
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quite cold, a Surgeon Bled her, and he said he believed she
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had been hanging an hour or two
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Richard Webb
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John Ammory
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Servant
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to Mr. Worlock of
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Castle Street
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on his
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Oath Says that yesterday between 4 and 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon
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he was in his Master's Shop which looks into the Decads Room
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the
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Deced was Washing at the Window, she told the Deponent
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her Husband had been at Sea 25 Years, that she had several
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Children by him, that he was a very honest Man, that she
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was an Old Clothes Woman and that Old Clothes Women would
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yet a drop now and then, Deponent says one day in the
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Middle of this Week he saw the Deceds Husband pull her
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by the Stair in their own Room on the Floor.
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