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observed the deced for their twelve Months past
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to appear at times very Childish and as if
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he was deranged in his Sences often talking
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has not for this last twelve Month been in
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October 1788
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TShelton Corr
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of two Swan Yard Bishops-
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maketh Oath and
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Saith that he was spending the Evening at the
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Britannia the House where deced lived that
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about ½ part ten he heard somebody up
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Stairs Shriek out that one Mr. Godfrey
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, the deceds Son in Law,
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and this Dept went up Stairs that said
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Mr. Godfrey took up a Light with him that
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when the came to the two pair Stairs Room
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of said House on going into the Room they
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found the deced hanging by a bit of Cord to
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an Iron Hook in the Wall of said Room
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that said Woodcock and Dept. lifted the
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deced up the Cord then fell of the Hook
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& then they lifted the deced into a Chair
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by that a
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Surgeon
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who had been sent
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for came and tried to bleed the deced but
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no Blood came from him that the deced
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was put to Bed but never Recovered
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That he has known the deced near twenty
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Years That he has observed the deced for
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near this two Years past appear very
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Melancholy and dull that the Dept has
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often spoke when he has been that was
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but the deced has never answd. when
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spoke
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to and many other things the deced has
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done induces this Dept: to believes that
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the deced was not in Sences
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Sworn the 28th day of
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October 1788 before me}
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Josh. Fellows
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