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severally make Oath and say and
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first the said
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Cousin German to this Dept. (and whom this Dept. informed and beleives is the Deft.
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in this Cause) came to this Depts.
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house in Bridgnorth
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aforesaid in order to see two of her Children
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which were then at Nurse in that Place The said Mrs. Jones on her Arrival there Appearing to this
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Dept. in a bad State of Health sold this Dept. that she had for sometime past been greatly
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indisposed in
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Berkshire
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with a Complication of Disorders And this Dept. further Saith that the
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very next day after her Arrival at
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aforesaid the said Jones told this Dept. that she
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found herself much worse through the fatigues of the Journey Whereupon this Dept. told her
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that She thought it Advisable for her to take the Opinion of an
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Bur the Sd. Jones told
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this Dept. that as She was under an Absolute Necessity of being in London to appear there in
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Discharge of her Bail in a certain Cause (which this Dept. is informed and beleives this
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to be the Cause in question) was the reason as this Dept. beleives why the said Jones did
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not consent to Enter into a Course of Physick for the same And this Dept. Saith that on
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Saturday the Twenty third day of the said Month of December the said
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set out from Bridgenorth on her Journey for London and the Dept.
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John Winter
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himself Saith that on Saturday the Twenty third day of December last he was sent for
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in the Evening to the House of
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there whom this Dept. upon Examination and Inquiry found to be in a
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very dangerous Condition as to her health) and whom this Dept. in since Informed and
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beleives was one
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) and thereupon this Dept. prescribed such Medicines as
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he apprehended were prorper for a Person under her Disorder but they not affording Releif
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She said Jones after Five Days attendance by this Deponent on the said Jones not with standing his atmost
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Endeavours for her preservation departed this life and this Dept. saw her dead and is
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Informed and beleives was buryed at Stourton aforesaid
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