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<p n="448"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo518">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo519">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Thirtieth day of<lb></lb>
April 1779 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo520">St. Paul Covent Garden</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo521">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n448-1">Martha Lee</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="449"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n449-1">Richard Carus</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ139">Journeyman</rs>
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to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n449-2">Henry<lb></lb>
Weedall</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo522">Drury Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ140">Apothecary</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith, That on Saturday Night last the 24th. Instant<lb></lb>
between ten & Eleven o'Clock <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n449-3">Martha Lee</rs>
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the Deced<lb></lb>
came to Mr. Weedall's Shop Saying that Mr. Nevills<lb></lb>
House was Pestered with Rats and that he had<lb></lb>
given her a Shilling to buy something to<lb></lb>
Poison them and that she was to give it to<lb></lb>
Mr. Nevill Apoon as she went home, Says<lb></lb>
that knowing the Deced Dept. sold her three<lb></lb>
Pennyworth of Corrosive Sublimate which<lb></lb>
Deced took away with her, Says that in<lb></lb>
about a Quarter of an hour a Woman<lb></lb>
came to Dept. saying that the Deced had taken<lb></lb>
something which she had at Depts. Shop, upon<lb></lb>
which he went to Deced at Mr. Nevill's House<lb></lb>
who had comitted much, That he asked the<lb></lb>
Deced what she had been doing, to which she<lb></lb>
answered that she was Sorry for what she had<lb></lb>
done and prayed to God to forgive her, you<lb></lb>
are Innocent and they cannot hurt you,<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced continued Vomitting<lb></lb>
and that he gave her Emetics, and Oil<lb></lb>
Says that Mr. Mahon was called in, who<lb></lb>
ordered the Deced more Emetics & Oil Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced continued, vomitting three<lb></lb>
or four days, and was Sensible, the Symptom<lb></lb>
then being favourable and Dept. had hopes of<lb></lb>
her Recovery, that she afterwards was at<lb></lb>
times Delirious and died between Seven<lb></lb>
and Eight o'Clock this Morning, and Dept.<lb></lb>
believes that her death happened in<lb></lb>
Consequence</p>
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