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<p n="278">London Informations of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo265">parish of Saint Antholin</rs>
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in the ward of Lord Wainer<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo266">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65001_date53">21st. day of August 1788</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n278-2">Thomas Fenner</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there lying Dead.</p>
<p n="279"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n279-1">John Ravencraft</rs>
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of the back of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo267">Aldgate Church</rs>
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london<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ129">Porter</rs>
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maketh oath that this morning between five and six he<lb></lb>
came to the house of the dead with pish from <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo268">Billingsgate</rs>
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, and he was<lb></lb>
informed by the dawn of the deced who had been to market & came house<lb></lb>
with him that their father was missing, and Dept looked for him &<lb></lb>
went top down into the Cellar & on the Stairs ran against the deced<lb></lb>
who was hanging by an Lair line pastened to the rail of the Bannister<lb></lb>
of the StairsThat Dept called assistance & hold the Canble while<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n279-2">John Humphry</rs>
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who came into license cant him down. A <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ130">Surgeon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was sent immedy at the dead was quite dead. Depts says the<lb></lb>
dead was at times and of his mind which was thereupon he did not<lb></lb>
go to market himselfsays three in out house or thereabouts the<lb></lb>
deced are taken to Doctor precite Head house & was afterward<lb></lb>
A Bethlem.</p>
<p n="280">Sworn the 21st. day of August<lb></lb>
1788 before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n280-1">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ131">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="281">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n281-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Ravencraft</rs>
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