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LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London that is
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to say, at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride
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this 5th. day of July 1799 on view of the body of
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now here lying Dead.
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Thomas Pountain
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Prison maketh Oath
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that he hath known the deced George Worford about seven weeks that
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he was a Prisoner for Debt in the said prison and was chummed in the
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same Room with Deponent-during which time he has been ill of the
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Dropsy and of which disorder he has had on him as Dept. understood
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these six Months past-That the deced has during the time he has
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been in the same Room with Dept. continued to decline and get worse
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daily and for this last Week past has kept to his Bed and got much
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worse until a little before five Yesterday Morning when he departed
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this Life that the deceds wife and Dept. has attended and a pistol
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him during his illness-That he was attended during his illness part
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of the time by a
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a few days
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before his Death by a Doctor Pedigrew of
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Sworn this 5th. day of July
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1799 before me}
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Thos. Pountain
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