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. Stable Keeper on his Oath saith, that's
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Dr. Warren as Coachman & his lady (the same being a waiting Jobb
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of this Dept.) for about Eight or Nine Months last past
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Says that Yesterday Morning between Seven and
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Eight o'Clock Dept. went up into a Hayloft in his Yard
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where Deced used to keep his Hay, and from thence
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went and looked into on Inner Loft where the
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Straw is kept, and in that Left he saw a Man
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Hanging, by a Hatter which was tied about his
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Neck, and put around one of the Beams of the Left
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Coachman, and did not then go to the Deced, but
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ran into the adjoining Publick House and Acquainted
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Mr. Powell therewith who went to the Deced and
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immediatley after this Dept. and several other people
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went to Deced when one Mr. Newman ent the
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Cord by which Deced was Hanging, and Deced
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was laid upon the Floor, and appeared to be dead,
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Says that a
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the Deced, and afterwards told the Deced that he
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got no Blood, and that be belived nothing could
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be done for him. Says that he was informed on
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Tuesday Evening last by one of the Coachmen that the
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Deced had last his Great Coat, Says that the Deced was
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