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Middlesex
to wit}


Informations of Witnesses severally
Taken and Acknowledged the Twelfthdayday
of April in the Twenty fourth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
King of Great Britain Etc. At the House of
Edward Owen< no role > known by the Sign of the
Shepherd and Bog in the Parish of Saint
John Wapping in the said County before
Thomas Phillips< no role > One of the Coroners for
the said County on view of the Body of
John Mealey< no role > then and there lying
Dead as follow (to wit)

James Rose< no role > of George Court Wapping Saith
That he only Knew Mealey by sight
That last Friday between five and six in the
Afternoon Informant was on the top of a
House in new rag fair amending the Filing

That Mealey Came< no role > from the Exchange in rag
fair to the Corner of the Broadway there
near the Anchor and CrownThat Three or
four Door's from the Exchange towards East
Smithfield he (Mealey) met with Another Man
(whose Name he does not Know)
Saith That between Twelve and One afternoonthe same
Informant saw Mealey and the Other Man
and a Girl Drinking together at the Swan
near the same PlaceThat they all
then Appeared SoberThat when they
Met together between five and six theDeceased
Other Man said to the Deceased what have




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