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<p n="830">Deponent & his Companion went to the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo589">Watch-<lb></lb>
house</rs>
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and informed the Constable of the Night<lb></lb>
with the accident who took down their<lb></lb>
Address and then the Constable of the house<lb></lb>
came with then to Mr. Longdale's where they<lb></lb>
saw the deceased laid upon the Floor<del>and</del>
and then<lb></lb>
appeared to be quite dead and since that time they<lb></lb>
have heard that the<del>dead</del>
deceased had<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and deranged in his Mind by a Feanor</p>
<p n="831"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n831-1">John North</rs>
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<p n="832"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n832-1">Saml. Crisp</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ278">Constable</rs>
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of the Night being<lb></lb>
sworn depend and<obscured></obscured>
the chief<lb></lb>
of the above Evidence and further deposed<lb></lb>
that he went up their into the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the deced used to sleep and found the such Window<lb></lb>
fastned down with a Fork back had it not<lb></lb>
been so the deceased who was a very<lb></lb>
Gross Corpulent man could not have<lb></lb>
thrown himself cut of that window as it<lb></lb>
was too small for him to pass thro' and<lb></lb>
then</p>
<p n="833">then he and another Constable and a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ279">Watch-<lb></lb>
maker</rs>
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who occupies the 2d. Floor went<lb></lb>
out at a Trap Door on the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo590">Top of the<lb></lb>
House</rs>
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where the Watch maker found<lb></lb>
the Shirt of the deceased and this Depont<lb></lb>
also found a Pricer of Flannel there &<lb></lb>
this Deponent has no Doubt but that the<lb></lb>
deceased threw himself from off the Top of<lb></lb>
the House into the Street.</p>
<p n="834">This Deponent further sayeth that<lb></lb>
Dr. Cooper had opend a Vein in the<lb></lb>
Arm of the deced but to no purpose<lb></lb>
that the sd. Dr. Cooper had<obscured></obscured>
the<lb></lb>
deceased for some time before the Reci-<lb></lb>
dent on Account of his being very<lb></lb>
unwill</p>
<p n="835"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n835-1">Saml. Crisp</rs>
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<p n="836">The Verdict That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n836-1">Robert Benson</rs>
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being<obscured></obscured>
with<lb></lb>
a Delirium of the Brain threw himself from off the<lb></lb>
Top of Mr. Longdales House into the Street which was the<lb></lb>
Cause of his death</p>
<p n="837"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n837-1">Matthew Rochfort</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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