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Informations taken this Twenty sixth
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the Deced
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has Lodged with Dept. almost five months
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excepting about ten days that she was in Place
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Says that Deced almost every Morning came
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down Stairs and Breakfasted with Dept. and
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the Deced Breakfasted below Stairs yesterday
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Morning upon Coffee between Eight and Nine
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o Clock Says that she this Dept. afterwards went up Stairs
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to make her Bed on the First Floor, and Deced
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followed, and asked Dept. to go out with her to
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Buy a few things being to go to a Place
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that Day, and wished Dept. to send to ask
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Mr. Pearce whether it would be equally
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agreeable if she went that be Afternoon and
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upon Dept. advising her to go herself Deced
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turned out of the Room & went up Stairs
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into her own Room, it being then between
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Nine & Ten o'Clock, Says that Deced not
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coming down, Dept. went up Stairs about
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half hour after two o'Clock that Afternoon to see
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where Deced was, That on her going into Deceds
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Room, the Door of which was not quite Shut,
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Dept. saw the Deced Hanging being quite upright
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and appearing to be dead, Says that Mr. James
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was immediately called and cut the Ribband
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which was fastened to the foot of a Turned up
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Bed
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