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April 1786

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That the said Webb Arrived on Wednesday at the Swan Inn in Barnstaple -
and on Thursday expired at the above Inn Where he then laid for Burial
And the said Pryce Devereux Prosser< no role > therein declares himself Sorry on Account
of the Business And upon being paid his expences up and down will Set
out and come up here and do all his endeavours for the Maintenance of his
Family and this Deponent Saith that the said setter is of the Proper hand
writing of the said Pryce Devereux Prosser< no role > as this Deponent verily believes
This Deponent having often seen him write and which latter this Deponent
received by the Post on monday last And therefore not in time to get the said
Pryce Devereux Prosser< no role > up to Town to give his Evidence at the Present Sessions
Barnstaple being as this Deponent is informed upwards of One hundred
and Ninety Miles from London And upon this Deponents Sending to Webb's
Wife to inform her of her Husbands death she sayd she had just Received
a Letter from Barnstaple informing her thereof And this Deponent is-
Advised and verily believes that the said Parish of Saint Mary Aldermary
would without doubt Succeed in their said Appeal if they could get the
said Pryce Devereux Prosser< no role > to attend and be examined thereon And this
Deponent Thomas Williams< no role > for himself on his said Oath saith that he did
on Monday the twentieth of this instant February Serve Mr. Brooks the
Vestry Clerk or the said Parish of Saint Ann Westminster with the Annext
Notice by delivering a true Copy thereof to and leaving the Same with a
Man Servant of the Said Mrs. Brooks at his house in Carlisle Street So he

Both Deponents Sworn in
Open Court the 23d. day of
February 1786 Bef

Wm. Hughes< no role >
Thos. Williams< no role >




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