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Informations taken this
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Fifteenth day of
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November 1773
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Buly Bladen
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late the
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Wife of
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Benjamin Bladen
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lying dead in the said Parish
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Liberty and County.
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Mary Haggard
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Servant to
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Benjamin Bladen
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Victualler
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Mill Bank Street
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on her Oath saith That she has lived Servant there almost
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Twelve months, That the Deced
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her Mistress has
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complained of a Pain in her Bowels about a fortnight, but went
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above the House and did her Business untill last Thursday
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Evening about Eleven o'Clock (Novr. 11th) when the Deced had
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an Empty Bottle in her Hand and was going to fill it with
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Geneva out of the Cellar, That as the Deced was going towards
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the top of the Cellar Stairs, she said that she was very Sick
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and believed that she should Vomit, Says that the Deced
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then appeared to be very ill, Dept. believes that she was
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then struck with Death, and Deced sat down at the bottom
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of the Stairs, Says that she called her Master Mr. Bladen
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who was then with Company in the Parlour, that he came
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to get some Air, Says that the Deced said that she was Sick
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and complained of the Pain in her Stomach and Bowels,
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Says that Mr. Perrott the Apothecary was fetched who sent the
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Deced some Medicines. and attended her the next day, but
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Deced died that Evening (Novr. 12) Says that she has seen
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Mr. Bladen Push the Deced more than once, & that she Deced was
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Jealous of Mr. Bladen, That she does not Know that Mr
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Bladen Pushed or Struck the Deced for three months last
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past and upwards, and believes that the Deced died in a
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natural way, and not by any hurt she reced from
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her Husband or any other Person.
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