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the Deced Lodged in Depts. Cellar Says that
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they often Quarrelled, and she heard Deced
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the same day, Deced told Dept. that her
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Husband had struck her with his Knee
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upon her Breast, and Dept. saw the Deced
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heard the Deced
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skream out and ansinted Deced's Breast
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with Hart's Horn and Oil, and Dept. some
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days after observed the Deced's Breast Yellow
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says that she afterwards asked Mr. Roberts
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said, Dam her, she would not get out of
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the way, Says that she cannot say when
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this happened, but that it was before Mr.
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Roberts reced his Pension at
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and Deced three or four days after that said
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she had been blooded, and Deced afterwards
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told Dept. that she had Medicines from some
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Hospital, Says that the Deced for some time
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had a Cough. but cannot say how long, nor
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did the Deced ever tell Depont. that she
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on her Oath saith that
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about two Months ago as Dept. thinks, she
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was at a Window in her own Room opposite
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to the Cellar wherein Deced lodged, and saw the
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Deced sitting at the top of her Cellar Stairs
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when her Husband was coming up Stairs
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and Deced fell down backwards upon the
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Pavement and Mr. Roberts went on towards
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Three Jurrs, and Deced afterwards on the
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same day told Dept. that he pushed her
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down with his Knee, and Dept. saw
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Mrs. Gibson rubbing the Deced with something
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but what part of her Dept. cannot tell, the
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being in her own Room, Says that she often
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saw the Deced afterwards, that she compl
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of a Disorder in her Stomach, but never
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said that it was owing to any hurt that
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she reced from her Husband, nor did
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Dept. ever hear that the Deced spit Blood
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until the Day that the Deced went into
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the work house, being the Ninth Instant
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Dept. thinks when Deced told her so, and
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that she Coughed very much, and Dept.
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considered it to be owing to her Disorder
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and not to the hurt she reced when her
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Severally Sworn the Day
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Year & Place abovementioned
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