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<p n="149"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London and <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo120">Southwark</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
parish of Saint George within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo121">the Borough</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo122">Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo123">County of Surrey</rs>
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on the 28th<lb></lb>
day of January 1789 on view of the body a<lb></lb>
Woman unknown now her lying dead.</p>
<p n="150"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n150-1">William Becket</rs>
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living opposite the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo124">Moonraker's</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo125">Parish of Saint George within the Borough of Southwark</rs>
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maketh Oath and saith that about the hour of seven in<lb></lb>
the Morning of Yesterday the 27th. instt. he saw something<lb></lb>
in a Ditch opposite her Dept. house that some Boys then<lb></lb>
passing by the asked them what is was they sayed it<lb></lb>
was a Bundle of Rags that Dept. thinking into be something<lb></lb>
thrown out of his Ropewalk devised a Boy to bring him a<lb></lb>
piece of Wooden board & which the put into the said ditch<lb></lb>
and on th having it about the discovered a persons head-that<lb></lb>
the pulled the Body to the edge of the ditch and it appeared<lb></lb>
to be Woman by its dress-that these was a great deal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo126">water in the ditch</rs>
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at the time-that two Stranger<lb></lb>
coming by pulled the Body out of the ditch and layher<lb></lb>
Upon the Bank near the edge of the ditch</p>
<p n="151">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65002_date25">28th day of<lb></lb>
January 1789</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="152">T Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="153"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n153-1">Wm Becketts</rs>
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