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1795
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No. 7
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Giles
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22nd. day of
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January 1795
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on view of the Body of
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Zacharia Billing
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now here lying Dead
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John Roberts
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a Porter lodging at the House of Mr Alexander
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London maketh Oath that he hath
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lodged in the said House about two years-that the deced has
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lodged in a little Room up one pair of Stairs in said Horn & about
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four Months-that between nine and ten OClock on Tuesday night
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last
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on Dept. going down stairs to fetch some Beer he was
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asked by three or four persons in the parlour of said House which
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was Mr. Billings's the deceds Room Dept. went up Stairs with
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then &
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them the Room that one of them forced the Door
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open-that it was locked inside & the Key in the Lock-that on
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forcing the Door open they found the deced hanging by a
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piece of
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Tape doubled fastened round a wooden
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Rail in which
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Cloak or Hat pins were fixed-that he was quite Dead and
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hanging against a
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up Bedstead in the Room-that some
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person untied the knot & lat the deced down-that the deced
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used to sell Garters and other things in the Street appeared to be
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a poor Man-Dept. saw the deced on Sunday Morning last in Bed
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in his own Room-that the deced used to be in the habit of drinking
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very much at times
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Sworn this 22nd. January 1795
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before me}
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London Smith
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maketh Oath that the deced has lodged in a little Room up one pair
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of Stair in Dept. house about four Months-that the deced Dept.
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believes must be upwards of
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Sixty years of age-that the
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about six O Clock on Sunday Night last the Dept. deced was in Dept
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Room that he appeared very Dull and Melancholy-Dept. wife
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asked the deced what was the matter with him he sayed he thought
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the Devil had got to fast hold of him. Dept. wife advised to go
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and read his Book and not think of any such thing the deced sayed
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he must go & put a Clean Shirt on which Dept. thought very odd the
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deced then houring quite a clean Shirt on him at the time that
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the deced continued in the Room about twenty Minutes-during
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which time he looked very wild and uneasy very restless-that
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he then left Dept. Room-Dept. saw the deced the next Morning
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(Monday sitting in a corner near the fine in the Tap Room of the Kings
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Arms next Door to Dept. that he then appeared very dull and
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Melancholy-Dept. stoke to him but he made no answer which
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Dept. thought very odd or Dept. & him used to be upon very good
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terms-that on Tuesday missing the deced and observestry the deceds
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Door to the locked Dept. was in deced with some other persons about
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