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January 1799. -
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and Webb, a few Days prior to this Visit, Bone
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wished to see me, I sent for him to the Office, he said
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he wanted to write a Letter to the Coroner which
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I permitted him to do it contained a Desire to
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see the Coroner stating that he had some thing
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to say to him respecting the Inquest that had
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lately been held before him concerning a Vagrant
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who Died a few Days after he was brought
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into the Prison - the Coroner came who had
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some Conversation with Bone, and examined
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again into the matter and declared the Jury
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had certainly given a very Correct Verdict
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that the Man had died by the Visitation of
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God - Bone told Sir Francis that he had
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one thing to mention to him in which they
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more all much interested which was that a
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Man who had died about a Week since had
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not come by his Death fairly, and that there
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were also two others who had Died in a
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similar manner, I said - Do you mean to
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say there were Murdered.? he replied "literally
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so", I said I would call a Committee to
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inquire into the matter, Sir Francis and his
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Companion said it was very proper they had
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related these Circumstances - Kear then told
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Sir Francis that he had also been used extremely
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ill, having been locked up Five Weeks in a
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Dark Cell, I told him he had better tell Sir
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Francis, what I had locked him up for which
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he not doing, I informed Sir Francis why he had
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been so Confined which was for having drawn a
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Gullotine upon the Wall, with a head knocked off
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and under it wrote, "this is the base Pitt", and also.
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