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<p n="60"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the parish of Saint Giles without<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo65">Cripplegate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo66">Ward of Cripplegate</rs>
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without in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo67">London</rs>
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aforesaid this 10th. day of January 1799 on<lb></lb>
view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n60-1">Samuel Knight</rs>
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and here lying<lb></lb>
Dead</p>
<p n="61"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n61-1">Elizabeth Irons</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ24">Spinster</rs>
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maketh Oath that she has been Servant to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ25">deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n61-2">Samuel Knight</rs>
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about twelve Months that the deced rented Apartments at Mr. Knott<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n61-3">Beach Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ26">Haberdasher & Hosier</rs>
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that the deced was a Clark at the<lb></lb>
Bank & a married ManThat between fire & six on Monday we the deced<lb></lb>
came home that he had his Ten with his wife went into his Best Chamber to wash<lb></lb>
himselfThat a little after Dept. heard<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
something go off Dept<lb></lb>
which Dept & appeared to a Squile let off by some Children the Street Dept and<lb></lb>
& her Mistress were in the Kitchen at the time<obscured></obscured>
while after<lb></lb>
Dept. Mistress sayed she wandered where the decad was a Dept went<lb></lb>
on the Leads one pr of Stairs where the privy is to took for the deced and<lb></lb>
saw the deced sitting on the seat of the privy his Head leaning against <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n61-4">the Wainscott</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the privy and seeing him Head bhody and blood on the Floor Dept.<lb></lb>
was very much alarmed Dept. saw something like a Pistol on the Floor<lb></lb>
Dept. she camed out That Mr. Knotts Shopman came up and got the<lb></lb>
deced into his Bed Room that he was quite Dead thenDept. says the<lb></lb>
decad has been low spirited Dull and Melancholy these three or four<lb></lb>
Weeks pastDept. says the decad has behaved differently these three or<lb></lb>
four Weeks past to what he used to doDept. say the decad appeared very<lb></lb>
low spirited on Monday Morning before he went out</p>
<p n="62">Sworn this 10th. day of January<lb></lb>
1799 before me}<lb></lb>
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<p n="63"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n63-1">Matthew Bell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ27">Shopman</rs>
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to Mr. Knott of Beech that <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo68">Haberdasher</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that between five and six o Clock on Monday Eve last in consequence of<lb></lb>
the alarm by the servant of the decad he went up to the privy & found the deced<lb></lb>
in manner described by the last WitnessThat in a little while after a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ28">Surgeon</rs>
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came and Dept a pistol to take the deced into his Bed Room that<lb></lb>
he was quite dead Dept. saw a Pistol taken from among the blood on the<lb></lb>
floor of the privythat the deced had a large wound or hole in his forehead<lb></lb>
which appeared to have been done by a Pistol Ball</p>
<p n="64">M Bell</p>
<p n="65">Sworn this 10th: day of January<lb></lb>
1799 before me}</p>
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