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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ40">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n136-59">John Smout</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo54">Little Swan alley</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo55">Goswell Street</rs>
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Saith (wife to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n136-2">John Smout</rs>
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a Prisoner in said Gaol)<lb></lb>
upon her Oath Saith That last Thursday in the<lb></lb>
Evening Depont. came down Stairs from her Husband<lb></lb>
for a pot of Beer for Dept. and Seer said Husband<lb></lb>
That as Depont. was<del> <obscured></obscured>
sa</del>
setting on the Stairs<lb></lb>
near the Bottom she saw the prisoner Thornton<lb></lb>
standing at the Gate begging, and while Thornton<lb></lb>
contained begging the deced came up to the Gate<lb></lb>
near Thornton On which Thornton said damn<lb></lb>
you get away, and imediately thereupon struck<lb></lb>
the deced in the pit of the Stomach, at which the<lb></lb>
deced said do you see now (a comon Expression<lb></lb>
with the deced when affronted) the deced then<lb></lb>
attempted to go again to the Gate, on which the<lb></lb>
said Thornton gave him a push which forced<lb></lb>
the deced against the Wall, his Head falling<lb></lb>
violently against the same and then deced fell<lb></lb>
upon his Back to the Ground, and laid Speechless<lb></lb>
and Depont. believed he was then dead.</p>
<p n="137">Taken and sworn this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15067_date15">24th.<lb></lb>
day of December 1755</rs>
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before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n137-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ41">Coroner</rs>
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S<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Smout</rs>
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