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on
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at Mr. Motts the Castle
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London maketh oath that
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this morning at one of Clock the heard who was book keeper at the
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same Inn returned from an house in the Inn Yard where he had been
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speaking the eve. and Dept gave him a Candle to go to bed, and he sayed
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he would not go to bed he would go out again but Dept took the they
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out of the door having previously looked it and sayed he should also
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out; and Dept left him and went to her own Chamber up three pair
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of stairs and she heard the deced go
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to his room on the repair of
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Stairs and steal his door that when Dept came down stairs in the
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morning the knocked at his door, that she called him afterwards and
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at length desired Benjamin Rixey to go to the deced that afterwards
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the door of the deced was unfastened by Bailey and then Dept saw the
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dead hanging by at handkerchief to the Fester of his Bed.
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Sworn the 31 July 1789
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before me
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Thos. Shelton Corner.
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oath that this morning Dept was desired by the last Witnesses to call
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Harry (the deced) that he went to his room door and it was fastened &
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Dept looked thro. a Window and saw the deced hanging to the lester of his
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bed. Had Dept then called his Master, and afterwards returned again & went
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into the deceds room at the Window and open the room door
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immedy. afterwds. he call the deced down who was quite stiff and deced Dept
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says he spent the eve with the deced the proceeds ought-that he was
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denful & his believes as usual-He has sometimes heard the deced say
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because has himself but wherefore he sayed so Dept does not know.
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Sworn the 31 July 1789 before me
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T. Shelton Corr.
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