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<p n="1578">LondonDepositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1515">without Aldersgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1516">Ward of Aldersgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1517">without in London</rs>
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aforesaid this 6th. day of<lb></lb>
November 1797 on view of the body of Theodosia<lb></lb>
Ouder now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="1579"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1579-1">John Scott</rs>
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of No. 2 Hare Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1518">Aldersgate street</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ737">Taylor</rs>
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maketh Oath that about eight oClock on Friday Night last<lb></lb>
Deponent returned to House That in a few Minutes after Dept. being<lb></lb>
in the lower front Room of his House Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1579-2">John Ouder</rs>
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the husband<lb></lb>
of the deced who together with the deced have lodged in the one<lb></lb>
pair of Stairs of Dept. house between two and three Months past<lb></lb>
came<del>into the<obscured></obscured>
</del>
home and came into Depts. Room that after<lb></lb>
asking Dept. if he had seen the deced he went up Stairs that<lb></lb>
he heard him knock at the Door of the one pair of Stairs that he<lb></lb>
came down to Dept. sayed he was afraid all was not right<lb></lb>
that his Room Door was locked inside Dept. went up to the one pair<lb></lb>
of Stairs with Mr. Ouder and found the door fastened inside<lb></lb>
That in a little while after Dept. forced the Room Door open<lb></lb>
and upon going into the Bed Room backwards he found the<lb></lb>
deced hanging by a Towel fastened round the foot Railing<lb></lb>
of the bedstead-Dept. That a Mr. Roberts who was present<lb></lb>
when Dept. forced the Door Open cut the deced down That she<lb></lb>
appeared quite Dead-That a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ738">Surgeon</rs>
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who had been sent for<lb></lb>
came and examined the deced and sayed he could do nothing<lb></lb>
for her That she was quite Dead-That during the time the deced<lb></lb>
has been at Depts. house she<obscured></obscured>
hath appeared very sudden<lb></lb>
and reserved</p>
<p n="1580">Sworn this 6th. day of November<lb></lb>
1797 before me}</p>
<p n="1581"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1581-1">John Sott</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1582"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1582-1">Ann Scott</rs>
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wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1582-2">John Scott</rs>
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the last witness maketh oath<lb></lb>
that she saw the deced about three oClock on Friday afternoon last<lb></lb>
that she observed nothing particular in the deced then That during<lb></lb>
the time the deced has been at Depts. house she<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
hath always<lb></lb>
appeared heavy dull and melancholy-That the deced and he<lb></lb>
husband appeared to live very happy and agreeable together</p>
<p n="1583">Sworn this 6th. day of November<lb></lb>
1797 before me}</p>
<p n="1584">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1584-1">Ann<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Scott</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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