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<p n="1498">London Deposition of a Witness taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the parish of Saint Stephen<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1434">Coleman Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1435">Ward of Coleman</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1436">Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1437">London</rs>
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aforesaid this 28th. day<lb></lb>
of October 1797 on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1498-1">Ann Rogers</rs>
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now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1499"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1499-1">Moses Rogers</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ681">Watchman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1438">Coleman street</rs>
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Ward and<lb></lb>
a Lodger at Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1499-2">Woottens No</rs>
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11 Whites Alley <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1439">Coleman street</rs>
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maketh Oath that a little after eight on Thursday Night last<lb></lb>
upon Depts. going up to his Appartment a two pair of Stairs<lb></lb>
Room in said<del>Room</del>
House he found the Door locked inside<lb></lb>
Dept. called the deced his wife by Name & tryed to force the<lb></lb>
Door-two of the Women Lodgers in the House came up -<lb></lb>
Dept. & the Women tryed to force the Door open one of the<lb></lb>
Women forced one of the Pannels of the Door out upon which<lb></lb>
Dept. got then the Door into the Room & one of the Women<lb></lb>
giving him a Light he saw the deced hanging by a small<lb></lb>
piece of Cord fastened to a Nail near the Cieling of the Room<lb></lb>
by the fire side - Dept. fell her she was quite Cold and Dead Dept.<lb></lb>
got a Knife & cut the Cord by which she was suspended<lb></lb>
and Dept. & the Women placed her on the Bed - says the<lb></lb>
deced was about fifty eight years of Age - says he left<lb></lb>
the deced in his Room about four oClock same afternoon<lb></lb>
that she was then walking up and down the Room quite in<lb></lb>
a melancholy state. Says the deced has been in a melancholy<lb></lb>
and disordered state these two years and a half - very<lb></lb>
much frightened and alarmed at any Noise or anything<lb></lb>
moving</p>
<p n="1500">Sworn this 28th. day of October<lb></lb>
1797 before me}</p>
<p n="1501">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1501-1">Moses<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Rogers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="1502">NB. Two Women Lodgers in the House confirmed Rogers as to the Door being looked<lb></lb>
inside his getting thro the Door & finding the deced in the situation of hanging as described<lb></lb>
by him & that she had been in a melancholy & disordered state the time he mentioned<lb></lb>
in his deposition.</p>
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