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of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses<lb></lb>
taken this 6th. day of July 1799 in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1352">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1277-1">James Empson</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1353">Sign<lb></lb>
of the Adam and Eve</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1354">Bowling Alley</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1355">Westminster</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1277-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ687">Coroner</rs>
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for the City & Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid touching the Death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1277-3">William Blake</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
dead as follow, to Wit.</p>
<p n="1278"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1278-1">Mathew Baillie</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1356">Great Windmill Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ688">M: D</rs>
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being sworn<lb></lb>
deposeth as follows Vizt That the deceased has lived<lb></lb>
with me as a Servant rather more than<obscured></obscured>
ten Years<lb></lb>
and during that time has been faithful Servant and<lb></lb>
any honest Man that for ap<obscured></obscured>
the fire of two Months<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
last he has appeared to le<obscured></obscured>
t very dejected and I understand<lb></lb>
that his Mother is subject to very low Spirits that<lb></lb>
a Sister is also subject to very lo<obscured></obscured>
Spirits and that on<lb></lb>
Aunt is also so stranger in her Conduct as to be const<lb></lb>
dered to be deranged, that of late he has been lying in his<lb></lb>
Bed at ten o'Clock in the Morning and clasping his<lb></lb>
hunds and appearing to be very which disturbed in his<lb></lb>
Mind and has often ran from the Kitchen to the Laundry<lb></lb>
and locked himself there in for the Space of a few Minutes<lb></lb>
has frequently appeared with a Wildness in his Coren<lb></lb>
tena<obscured></obscured>
ice which has frighed the Maid Servants that<lb></lb>
he has shewed occasionally much irresolution of Conduct<lb></lb>
such as he would wish to go behind my Carriage today<lb></lb>
and when the Carriage was ready he would say he could not<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
he has Inndentend Said he had heard Noises (such as Bells ringing)</p>
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