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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Dunstan
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in the East in the Ward of Tower in London
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aforesaid this 5th day of August 1799 on
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view of the body of
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here lying Dead
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Thomas Bailey
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Alley Forbes
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Street Porter
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and hath Oath that the deced Patrick to
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together with his Wife came to lodge with Dept.
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and of November last that the deced was
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and to aged in a one pair of Stairs back Room the Room he now
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his head in That about ten oClock on Friday Night last
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deced
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Dept. hearing somebody at her Street Door went to it
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opened the Door & found it to be the deced that he was
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very much intoxicated and was endeavouring to get to
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the door but was unable from this intoxicated state he
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was in Dept. took hold of him and led him into the house
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and up to his own Appartment and placed him in a
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Stairs Dept. that observed that his Cloaths were dirty as
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if he had been down in the Street the deced sayed he had
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a severe
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fall
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Dept observed he had got a bruise over his right Eye Dept
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shook hands
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with
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the deced and left him with his wife
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who had assisted Dept. to get up the deced up Stairs Dept.
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says that about nine oClock the next Morning Saturday in
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Dept going home he heard the deced was dead That the
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deced was very much in the habit of getting intoxicated for a
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Week or two together
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Sworn this 5th. day of August
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1799 before me}
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Thos Bailey
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Elizabeth White
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of the deced maketh Oath that
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about ten oClock on Friday Night last she assisted Mr. Bailey
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in getting her husband the deced up Stairs to his own appartmt
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that he was very much intoxicated and Dept observing he
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had a Wound over his Eye asked Mr. Bailey to send up a
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little Vinegar to wash the Wound with Dept having got the
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Vinegar bathed the diceased Eye and bound an Handkerchief
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