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St. Giles in the Feilds the 24th of May 1768 County
the Death of Mary White< no role >

Henry Burton< no role > of Lukenness Lane Fishman sayth that
yesterday in the afternoon he came Home and found
the deceas'd Lying upon his Bed not Dead but decling
that her Husband White was present the
wittness Lodges in the one pair of stairs forwards &
white & his two pair stairs backward
in the same House does not know how
she came to be brought in to his Room but his
wife know's That the deceasd Husband say'd
she was only drunk; the Wittness then unsested
theseshe should be carried up into not one Room
and offerd his assistance for that purpose but
she died before she was put into the Room upon
she Wittness Arm That she indever'd to speak
but could not; he then sied up her Chin and Cle [..]
her eyes and put her upon the Bed That he hath
Lodgd in the House about a Twelve Months and
White & his Wife about six or seven months
to the last of his Knowledge he further saith
that the deceust is given to hard drinking of
do't believe that for the last three Week of her
Life she hath not been sober for a Day to
gether That her Husband is a sober industy
ours Man not given to drink That he
hath observ'd the Husband and wife to quary
often by Reason of his wife thing out of
go to pawn which he has been oblige to redeim
That the last Time he saw he in strick her is
about there Weeks ago when she was in Lequ
-or by give her a Slap on the France she being the
very much Lequor this was about ten in the
Morning

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Henry Burton< no role >