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<p n="2047"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1282">Middlesex</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
Informations of Witnesses severally<lb></lb>
taken and acknowledged on the Behalf of Our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord the King touching the Death of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2047-1">Sylvia Woodcock</rs>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2047-2">William Woodcock</rs>
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, at <lb></lb>
the Work House in the Parish of Saint Luke<lb></lb>
Chelsea in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1283">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, on the<lb></lb>
fourth Day of November in the Year of Our<lb></lb>
Lord 1788 before Me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2047-3">Richard Collett</rs>
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One of <lb></lb>
His Majesty's Coroners for the said County man<lb></lb>
Inquisition then and there taken on View of <lb></lb>
the Body of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2047-4">Sylvia Woodcock</rs>
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, then and<lb></lb>
there lying dead, as follows (to wits)</p>
<p n="2048"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2048-1">Henry Cannon</rs>
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Servant to Mr. Shepherd of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1284">King's <lb></lb>
Road</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1285">Robinson's Lane, Chelsea</rs>
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, Gardener Being<lb></lb>
Sworn and Examined the Day, and Year, and at the<lb></lb>
place first above written up on his Oath saith as <lb></lb>
follows Vizt! " On Tuesday the twenty eighth Day of"<lb></lb>
"October last about three o'Clock in the Morning, as "<lb></lb>
"I was going to take my Master's Cart to Market"<lb></lb>
"as usual, I saw a Robinson Woman laying on"<lb></lb>
"the Ground in Robinson's Lane aforesaid, it was"<lb></lb>
"very Packts Soggy, but I had a lighted Candle in a"<lb></lb>
"Lanthorn with me, by which I perceived the"<lb></lb>
"Woman was terribly Wounded about Her Head and"<lb></lb>
"Face, and with very little Signs of Life, I asked"<lb></lb>
"Her what she did there, but she was notable"<lb></lb>
"to give me any Answer - I was much alarmed"<lb></lb>
"and went to One <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2048-2">William Penny</rs>
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feather a Watchman"<lb></lb>
"at the Top of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1286">Church Lane</rs>
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, and informed Him-"<lb></lb>
"what were seen, and requested Him to go with"</p>
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