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<p n="1109"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1208">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1209">Midsex</rs>
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Information of Witnesses taken this Su<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
day of September 1764 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1210">St.<lb></lb>
Margaret within</rs>
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the City & Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1211">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition<lb></lb>
taken on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1109-1">Mary Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying Dead in the said Parish City Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="1110"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1110-1">Sarah Hollyer</rs>
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of Dacra Street in the Parish of St. Margt.<lb></lb>
Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ418">Widow</rs>
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, Daughter to the Deced <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1110-2">Mary Smith</rs>
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, on her<lb></lb>
Oath saith, That yesterday Morning between four and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
o' Clock Deponent awaked and saw the Deced who lodged<lb></lb>
with her in Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1110-3">George Wight</rs>
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's House in Dacre Street, dressing<lb></lb>
herself in the room where they lay, Says that She<lb></lb>
desired Deced to come into Bed again which Deced<lb></lb>
refused to do saying that she must go down Stairs<lb></lb>
upon which Deponent dressed herself and went<lb></lb>
down Stairs after Deced and stopped her at the<lb></lb>
Street Door just as Deced was going out, Says that<lb></lb>
Deced came up Stairs again, and that they Drant<lb></lb>
Tea for Break fast together before Seven O' Clock,<lb></lb>
Dept. says that she went down Stairs into her Shop<lb></lb>
leaving the Deced in the Bedchamber upon the<lb></lb>
Second Floor, and Dept. returned several times<lb></lb>
after to the Deced to see how she did, Says that she<lb></lb>
afterwards between ten & Eleven O' Clock sent her<lb></lb>
little boy up to ask the Deced to come down Stairs<lb></lb>
who returned and said that she was coming down<lb></lb>
Upon her not coming Dept. in about a Quarter of an<lb></lb>
hour went up again and found the Door of the Room<lb></lb>
where the Deced Lodged, locked, and the Key on the<lb></lb>
in side of the Door, Says that she was much fighten'd there at<lb></lb>
and run down for a Hammer to break open the Door<lb></lb>
that in coming up Mr. Stone (who lodges in the First<lb></lb>
Floor in the same House) gave Dept. a Poker, with<lb></lb>
which Dept. forced open the Door, Mr. Stone being with<lb></lb>
Dept. Says that she then discovered the Deced hanging</p>
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