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Informations taken this Sixth
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day of January 1789 at the Parish
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of St. Margaret within the Liberty
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of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon
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an Inquisition touching the death
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in the Parish of
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St. Margaret Westmr.
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Taylor
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on his Oath saith
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has Lodge about
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six Weeks with Dept. That on
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Sunday last
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the Third Instant this Dept. Daughter
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Mary Ann
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Cross
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aged about Twelve Years went up Stairs to
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make the Deced's Bed on the Second Floor and
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immediately came down again saying that
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she Saw a Man's Lag in the Carrier of the
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Room upon which Dept. went up Stairs and
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saw the Deced Hanging by a Cord fastened
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to an Iron Staple in one of the Wooden
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Joysts in the Certing of the Room and about
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his Neck, Says that he fetched a Soldier who
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lifted the Deced up which Dept. out the Cord
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and Deced was laid down upon the Deced
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being dead and quite Cold, and Dept.
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believes that the Deced Hanged himself
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Says that the Deced was a very quiet
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Fensive Man, but has of lote been much
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addeted to Drinking and was in a low Way
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Walter Cross
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William Clapp
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a Lodger at Mr. Cross's at Mr.
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Cross's in Angel
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on his Oath saith, That he usually slept
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with the Deced, That the Deced did not sleep
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at
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Saturday Night last but came hour
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about Eight o'Clock on Sunday Morning and went
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into
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