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<p n="63">The King against <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n63-1">Catherine Jones</rs>
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<p n="64"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-1">John Winter</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo44">Stourton in</rs>
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the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo45">Stafford</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15056_occ31">Apothecary</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-2">Ann</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15056_occ32">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_nn64-32">John<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo46">Bridgenorth</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo47">Salop</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15056_occ33">Tobacconist</rs>
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severally make Oath and say and<lb></lb>
first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-3">Ann Thomas</rs>
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for herself Saith That on the Seventeenth day of December last<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-4">Catherine Jones</rs>
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Cousin German to this Dept. (and whom this Dept. informed and beleives is the Deft.<lb></lb>
in this Cause) came to this Depts. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo48">house in Bridgnorth</rs>
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aforesaid in order to see two of her Children<lb></lb>
which were then at Nurse in that Place The said Mrs. Jones on her Arrival there Appearing to this<lb></lb>
Dept. in a bad State of Health sold this Dept. that she had for sometime past been greatly<lb></lb>
indisposed in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo49">Berkshire</rs>
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with a Complication of Disorders And this Dept. further Saith that the<lb></lb>
very next day after her Arrival at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo50">Bridgenorth</rs>
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aforesaid the said Jones told this Dept. that she<lb></lb>
found herself much worse through the fatigues of the Journey Whereupon this Dept. told her<lb></lb>
that She thought it Advisable for her to take the Opinion of an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15056_occ34">Apothecary</rs>
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Bur the Sd. Jones told<lb></lb>
this Dept. that as She was under an Absolute Necessity of being in London to appear there in<lb></lb>
Discharge of her Bail in a certain Cause (which this Dept. is informed and beleives this<lb></lb>
to be the Cause in question) was the reason as this Dept. beleives why the said Jones did<lb></lb>
not consent to Enter into a Course of Physick for the same And this Dept. Saith that on<lb></lb>
Saturday the Twenty third day of the said Month of December the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-6">Catherine Jones</rs>
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<lb></lb>
set out from Bridgenorth on her Journey for London and the Dept. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-7">John Winter</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself Saith that on Saturday the Twenty third day of December last he was sent for<lb></lb>
in the Evening to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-8">Edward Lynes</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo51">Stourton</rs>
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aforesaid in order to attend a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15056_occ35">Gentlewoman</rs>
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there whom this Dept. upon Examination and Inquiry found to be in a<lb></lb>
very dangerous Condition as to her health) and whom this Dept. in since Informed and<lb></lb>
beleives was one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n64-9">Catherine Jones</rs>
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) and thereupon this Dept. prescribed such Medicines as<lb></lb>
he apprehended were prorper for a Person under her Disorder but they not affording Releif<lb></lb>
She said Jones after Five Days attendance by this Deponent on the said Jones not with standing his atmost<lb></lb>
Endeavours for her preservation departed this life and this Dept. saw her dead and is<lb></lb>
Informed and beleives was buryed at Stourton aforesaid</p>
<p n="65">Both Sworn at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo52">Fulham</rs>
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in the County of Middx<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15056_date13">12th. Day of January 1744</rs>
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Before.</p>
<p n="66">M Wright</p>
<p n="67"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n67-1">John Winter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n67-2">Ann Thomas</rs>
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