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<p n="1153">London Deposition of a witness taken as<del>London</del>
Southwark<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the parish of Saint George<lb></lb>
within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1167">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1168">Southwark</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1169">County of Surrey</rs>
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this 2nd. day of August<lb></lb>
1799<del>before me</del>
on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1153-1">Mary Ann Foster</rs>
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now here lying dead</p>
<p n="1154"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1154-1">William Lyns</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ342">Servant</rs>
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to the Keeper of the House of<lb></lb>
Correction in Saint George's Fields in the parish of Saint George<lb></lb>
within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1170">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1171">Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1172">County of Surrey</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that on or about the 6th.d ay of July last the deced was committed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1173">House of Correction</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid as a Vagrant by virtue of a Commitment by Richard<lb></lb>
Fleming Esquire one of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ343">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1174">County Surrey</rs>
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aforesaid to be detained until the next quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the peace that should be holden for the said County<lb></lb>
That she appeared then to be deranged and insane and<lb></lb>
continued so until the time of her Death hereafter mentioned<lb></lb>
That during the time she has been in confinement she refused<lb></lb>
sustinance of every kind continually and so much so<lb></lb>
that she has been forced at many times by forcing sustenance<lb></lb>
down her Throat with a Funnell-That during the time<lb></lb>
she has been in confinement she has had every attention<lb></lb>
payed to her that the situation of the place would admit<lb></lb>
and has been attended by the surgeon of the prison-That the<lb></lb>
deced continued to decline and get worse daily until<lb></lb>
between two and three oClock on Wednesday afternoon last<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
she departed this Life.</p>
<p n="1155">Sworn this 2d. day of August<lb></lb>
1799 before me}</p>
<p n="1156"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1156-1">William Lyns</rs>
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