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April 1765

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Chelsea. [..] 17. April 1765. White Hart . Mr. Davis
touching the death of Jas. Knight< no role > then & there lying
dead.

Mary Mead< no role > Spr . That the heard was her Bros. in
Law a kept the coll at Walham Green in the Parish of Fulham
That last Monday Morning behrn. 10 & 11 he told her he was
going to Town to [..] some Mony, but sd. no what Sum
or from whom. He was going out but return'd & left the
key return he Kept his mony 10th. her & put his hand into
his pocket & pulled it out agn. & shew'd in his heard to be
Gold & Silver & [..] it was were than he shd. Spendhe said
he shd. be at Home Johnson 5 to 6 but [..] shd. net [..] drive at home
says she cannt. distinguish what gold us. What Silver-he
was a very [..] & [..] out after 10 at night
Says she never Lurad [..] his having [..] any mony in Town
That he always last a [..] Book in his pocked in wch.
he Entred wh. was ansing to hims belloved he last it in his
Pocketbut it is now missingThe Notice she had of his death
was yesterday Morning abt. 6.she cause away immediately
[..] found the decad lying in his Cleaths on the ships at the
Sign of the Cow & [..] mans abt. the Body& the maid
in the House was upThe may of the House was not them
up he lays in [..] called the Basmary people. in
the House upon the [..] but he gave no room why he did
not got up [..] says she ask'd him if he can not ask am'd
to be in bed whom a man lay dead like a Dog at his
doorhe made no Acresr. Says she insisted he shd. be
brot into the House & the Maid said he must not be brot.
inshe insisted upon it & he was at last brot. inthe [..]
the Landlord thin day Jane why he did not rise boones, was that he
was frightn'd & lay'd in bed & cry'd like a child for 2 Hours




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