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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1355">parish of Saint John within the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1356">Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1357">County of Surrey</rs>
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this<lb></lb>
10t. day of October 1796 on view of the<lb></lb>
Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1470-1">Joshua Cubbidge</rs>
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now here lying<lb></lb>
Dead</p>
<p n="1471"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1471-1">Hugh Coward</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ472">Apprentice</rs>
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to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ473">deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1471-2">Joshua<lb></lb>
Cubbidge</rs>
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of No. 2 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1358">St. Thomas's Street</rs>
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Cork<lb></lb>
Cutter maketh Oath that between eleven & twelve<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
oClock on Saturday Morning last Dept. having been out &<lb></lb>
returned to his Majestys house afsd. event from thruer to a Wardhouse belonging to the deced situate in<lb></lb>
Christopher Inn Yard in the parish of Saint John Sowark<lb></lb>
<del> <obscured></obscured>
by one of the deced Men who asked Dept for the<lb></lb>
Kept of the<obscured></obscured>
sound</del>
Dept.<del>and having stern</del>
went up the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1360">warehouse Stairs</rs>
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& on going into the two pair of Stairs Room of the wards house he found the<lb></lb>
deced hanging by a Cord fastened round a loose Beam<lb></lb>
or piece of Wood usually used for weighing Cook by<lb></lb>
Dept. Fell him that he fell cold & was quite dead. Dept<lb></lb>
went down stairs & gave the alarmDept. and one Lake<lb></lb>
anor. person retd. & went up Stairs. Lake cat the deced<lb></lb>
down. that he was then quite cold & Dead that a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ474">Surgeon</rs>
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having been cut for came & wild to bleed the deced<lb></lb>
but no blood came from himDept. has been almost<lb></lb>
seven years Apprentice to the deced.-Dept says the<lb></lb>
deced has appeared to him to have been deranged lately<lb></lb>
that he has appeared dull and at times melancholy<lb></lb>
that he has not attended to his business lately as he used<lb></lb>
to do-and that on Friday Evening last the deced. between<lb></lb>
in an odd sort of manner while Dept. was sorting some<lb></lb>
Corks so much so that Dept. then sayed to this Masters<lb></lb>
Maid Servant that he thought his Master was not in her<lb></lb>
senses.Dept. has really considered his Master in capble<lb></lb>
lately of managing his business</p>
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