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<p n="365"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo365">Southwark</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo366">parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo367">Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo368">County of Surrey</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65001_date72">15th. day<lb></lb>
of September 1788</rs>
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on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n365-1">George Gray</rs>
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there lying dead.</p>
<p n="366"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n366-1">Jacob Frankson</rs>
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of the two Dutch Skippers Mr. Catherines<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo369">Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo370">Precinct of St. Catherines</rs>
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in the Co. of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo371">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ169">Victualler</rs>
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<del>that</del>
maketh Oath and saith that the deced has<lb></lb>
Lodged in his House about a Week that he was a Seafarring<lb></lb>
Man and as Dept. understood from the deced himself<del>that</del>
<lb></lb>
he came from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo372">Et. Indies</rs>
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-that about the hour of seven<lb></lb>
in the forenoon of Sunday last the Sept. inst: being in his<lb></lb>
Bed Chamber he was called by his Servt. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n366-2">Elizabeth Horth</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who told him a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ170">Gentl</rs>
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. wanted to speak to him that Dept.<lb></lb>
made some scruple at getting up but said Servt. told him he<lb></lb>
must getting up that he then get out of Bed put his Claths<lb></lb>
on and on opening his Chamber Door said Servant told<lb></lb>
him <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n366-3">George Gray</rs>
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Meaning the deced had cut his Throat<lb></lb>
that Dept. went up to the Garret in his this Depts. house<lb></lb>
where he saw deced of lying<del>upon</del>
with his Face upon his Arm<lb></lb>
<del>that three when</del>
that Dept. asked some others people the<lb></lb>
in the Room if deced was dead that the deced himself<lb></lb>
answered<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and said No that somebody had sent<lb></lb>
for Mr. Christian <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo373">St. George</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ171">Surgeon</rs>
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who lived next<lb></lb>
door to this Dept. house who came and sowed the deced<lb></lb>
Wound in his Throat at and then deced was Conveyed to Saint<lb></lb>
Thomas's Hospital in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo374">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo375">Southwark</rs>
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that Dept.<lb></lb>
has sent to said Hospital Several times that on Saturday Morning<lb></lb>
last he was informed that the deced was dead That some<lb></lb>
two or three days before deced cut his Throat he as observed<lb></lb>
him very Melancholy and dull.</p>
<p n="367"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n367-1">Jacob Frankson</rs>
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<p n="368">Sworn the 15th. day of<lb></lb>
September 1788 before me}<lb></lb>
T Shelton Corr.</p>
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