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London Deposition of a Witness taken at London
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that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre
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in the
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aforesaid this 12th: day of November 1792
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on view of the Body of Sarah Doughlas now
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here Lying Dead
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's Gaol of Newgate
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maketh Oath That she hath known the
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Sarah Doughlas
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about Five Months past
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That she was also a Prisoner in the said Gaol that she hath
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been in the Sick lived wherein Dept. attends the whole of
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that time ill with a Pain in her side, a Swelling in her
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Legs and appeared to be in a Consumption - That she was
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an aged Woman about Sixty Five Years of Age on Dept.
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understood - That she continued to waste away gradually
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and to get worse daily until Saturday Morning last the
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10th instant when she departed this Life - That she was
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attended by the Surgeon of the Gaol during her illness
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and Dept. has no doubt the aforesaid Complaint occasioned
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the deceds death.
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Sworn this 27th day of November 1792
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