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<p n="937">LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London that is<lb></lb>
to say, at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo962">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
this 5th. day of July 1799 on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n937-1">George Worford</rs>
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now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="938"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n938-1">Thomas Pountain</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ277">Prisoner</rs>
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for Debt in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo963">the Fleet</rs>
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Prison maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that he hath known the deced George Worford about seven weeks that<lb></lb>
he was a Prisoner for Debt in the said prison and was chummed in the<lb></lb>
same Room with Deponent-during which time he has been ill of the<lb></lb>
Dropsy and of which disorder he has had on him as Dept. understood<lb></lb>
these six Months past-That the deced has during the time he has<lb></lb>
been in the same Room with Dept. continued to decline and get worse<lb></lb>
daily and for this last Week past has kept to his Bed and got much<lb></lb>
worse until a little before five Yesterday Morning when he departed<lb></lb>
this Life that the deceds wife and Dept. has attended and a pistol<lb></lb>
him during his illness-That he was attended during his illness part<lb></lb>
of the time by a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ278">Doctor Stable</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo964">Saffron hill</rs>
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and for<del>the</del>
a few days<lb></lb>
before his Death by a Doctor Pedigrew of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo965">fleet Street</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="939">Sworn this 5th. day of July<lb></lb>
1799 before me}</p>
<p n="940"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n940-1">Thos. Pountain</rs>
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