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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say at the Parish of Saint Bridget
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otherwise Bride in the
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aforesaid the 21st. day
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of November 1792 on view of the Body
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of Jane Danee new here lying Dead
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Sarah Wife of
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Thomas Vivash
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of Merge a Mill in the Parish
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of Minall near Marlborough in the County of
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maketh
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Oath that the deced Depts. Mother was
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arrested some time back
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and was taken from her Home last Wednesday Wack in order to be taken
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to London to be surrendered by her Bail that Dept. having
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received a Letter acquainting her that the deced was ill in the
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Dept. quitted her home and came to London in
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order to see her Mother the deced that Dept. arrived in London
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last Saturday between twelve and one in the day and immediately
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went to
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Prison that she found the deced sitting in a Chair
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in a lower Room in the prison that the appeared very ill that
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she complained of a violent pain at her Hea
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that the deced
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was and Woman aged Eighty years-that the deced got
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were on the Sunday and on Monday Morning Morning about
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Eight O Clock departed this Life.
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Sarah Vincaste
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Mary Betty Elford a
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for Debt in His Majestys
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Prison
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maketh Oath that the deced was brought into
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the said Prison
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last Friday Weekthat on the next day the deced
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came to live in Dept. Room that she appeared very weak
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and ill and could searce walk across the Room-that she
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was an aged Womanthat she continued to get
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daily
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until Monday Morning last when she departed this Life
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that Dept. took as much care as possible of the deced during
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her illness.
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The above Deposition sworn this 21st. day
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of November 1792 before me}
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Mary Betty Elford
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