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Informations taken this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15077_date56">thirtieth day of May 1766</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo146">Saint Bottolph<lb></lb>
<del>Bishopsgate</del>
Aldersgate</rs>
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in the Ward of<lb></lb>
<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo147">Bishopsgate without</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n202-1">John<lb></lb>
Stirling</rs>
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then and there lying dead.</p>
<p n="203"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n203-1">Helen </rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15077_occ141">Widow</rs>
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of the deced maketh Oath & saith that<lb></lb>
on Tuesday thirteenth day of May instant the<lb></lb>
deceased<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
after having been out about his<lb></lb>
Business from abt. 12 of the Clock at Noon hereunto<lb></lb>
abt. the same hour at night and told this Deponent<lb></lb>
that he had received some hurt upon his head, and on<lb></lb>
this Deponents asking him who had hurt him, he<lb></lb>
made answer that we Captains at the Sign of the<lb></lb>
Kintish Hoy situate in Harp Lane in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo149">Thames Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
London Where he had been to sell his Goods had<lb></lb>
thereon, lighted Gunpowder in his face and that one of<lb></lb>
there went behind him and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
tripped up his<lb></lb>
Heels<obscured></obscured>
threw him upon the grounds on which Dept. asked him what provocation<lb></lb>
the dend had given them, who answered he had not<lb></lb>
given them any, says the dead, complained that<lb></lb>
he had been hurt very much and had receivd his<lb></lb>
Death's wound that the deced want to be<obscured></obscured>
not<lb></lb>
shop the whole night, that he lay in bed<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the real<lb></lb>
day till abt. 8 in the Evening not having had any<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
the whole time; that bat. the last mentioned he<lb></lb>
came down<obscured></obscured>
and went out for abt. an hour or two<lb></lb>
and then where house having<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
eat anything<lb></lb>
then hold<obscured></obscured>
any thing us Dept. honours of<lb></lb>
except a small quantity of Tea most of which he<lb></lb>
brought up again that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dept. com afterwds. perswalled<lb></lb>
him to go to bed which he did still complaining of the<lb></lb>
hurt the Captains had done him, & saying that<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
lifted up his foot his head seemed to be<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in two<lb></lb>
halves, that he had no sleep the whole night, nor did<lb></lb>
he eat indigest anything: that abt. 11 of the Clock the next<lb></lb>
Morning the 15th the<obscured></obscured>
seized with Fills, on which<obscured></obscured>
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I on a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15077_occ142">Surgeon</rs>
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in the Neighbourhood was sent for who<lb></lb>
came and bled him and<obscured></obscured>
come medicines which</p>
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