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Chelsea.
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17. April 1765.
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Law a kept the coll at
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Green in the
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Parish of Fulham
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That last Monday Morning behrn. 10 & 11 he told her he was
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going to Town to
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some Mony, but sd. no what Sum
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or from whom. He was going out but return'd & left the
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key return he Kept his mony 10th. her & put his hand into
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his pocket & pulled it out agn. & shew'd in his heard to be
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Gold & Silver &
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it was were than he shd. Spendhe said
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he shd. be at Home Johnson 5 to 6 but
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shd. net
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drive at home
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says she cannt. distinguish what gold us. What Silver-he
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was a very
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&
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out after 10 at night
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Says she never Lurad
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his having
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any mony in Town
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That he always last a
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Book in his pocked in wch.
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he Entred wh. was ansing to hims belloved he last it in his
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Pocketbut it is now missingThe Notice she had of his death
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was yesterday Morning abt. 6.she cause away immediately
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found the decad lying in his Cleaths on the ships at the
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Sign of the Cow &
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mans abt. the Body& the maid
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in the House was upThe may of the House was not them
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up he lays in
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called the Basmary people. in
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the House upon the
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but he gave no room why he did
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not got up
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says she ask'd him if he can not ask am'd
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to be in bed whom a man lay dead like a Dog at his
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doorhe made no Acresr. Says she insisted he shd. be
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brot into the House & the Maid said he must not be brot.
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inshe insisted upon it & he was at last brot. inthe
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the Landlord thin day Jane why he did not rise boones, was that he
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was frightn'd & lay'd in bed & cry'd like a child for 2 Hours
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