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to whom this deponent delivered the Corpse
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Saith that from a Letter in th Pocket of the deced
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Cooper and had worked with Messrs.
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Tho. Were at British Wine Manufactory
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Finsbury
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London nearly 17 Years. That a few
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a Bror. of his died and left him
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thirty Pounds that he expected to have had
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much more and this disappointment
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has lined a very unsettled life
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which together with
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other Circumstances so affected his Brain that he
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renderd totally unfit to do any
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in a State of Lunacy and for three
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Weeks last past no body kneer what was
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Foreman
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