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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo149">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this Eighteenth day<lb></lb>
of January 1765 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo150">Parish of St. John<lb></lb>
the Evangelist</rs>
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within the City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo151">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an<lb></lb>
Inquisition taken on View of the Body<lb></lb>
of Samuel Syar lying Dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish City Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="162"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n162-1">David Ayr</rs>
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a Corporal in Colonel Sorell Company in the<lb></lb>
Second Regiment of Foot Guards on his Oath saith that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n162-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Syar</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ62">Deced</rs>
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was a Soldier in the same Company, That the<lb></lb>
Deced was at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo152">Sign of the Adam and Eve</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo153">Petty France</rs>
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Westmr. on Wednesday Evening last, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
drunk a good deal of Bear there, and would have had<lb></lb>
more but was refused by Mrs. King, the Landlady, Saying<lb></lb>
that he was either in Liquor, or in one of his crazy<lb></lb>
Humours Says that the Deced came from thence with Dept.<lb></lb>
before ten O Clock that Evening, but Deced refused to go<lb></lb>
to his Lodgings and left the Dept. Says that he soon after<lb></lb>
found Deced at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo154">Bull Head</rs>
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, near the Broad Way Chapel<lb></lb>
drinking a Glass of Geneva, Says that the Deced came<lb></lb>
out from thence with Dept. and refused again to go to<lb></lb>
his Lodging the pressed by Dept. to go, Says that Deced<lb></lb>
got look from Dept. and run away towards <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo155">Tothill Fields</rs>
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and Deponent could<lb></lb>
not overtake him, Deponent says that he was yesterday<lb></lb>
at the Tilt Yard about half an hour after two o Clock<lb></lb>
when a Soldier came there and informed the Paymaster<lb></lb>
that a Soldier belonging to the Second Regiment lay<lb></lb>
Drowned on <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo156">Mill Bank,</rs>
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Says that Serjeant Waller<lb></lb>
was sent immediately to see if he knew him, says<lb></lb>
that the Serjeant non returned and informed Dept.<lb></lb>
that it was Samuel Syar the Deced, Says that he came<lb></lb>
afterwards to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo157">Mill Bank</rs>
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and saw the Deced lying<lb></lb>
upon his Back on the Shore on <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo158">Mill Bank</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo159">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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Westmr. Says that the<lb></lb>
Deced was Dead and appeared to have been Drowned, Says<lb></lb>
that he observed a Scar upon the Deced; Nose, and the<lb></lb>
Skin rubbed off his Nuckles, but that he observed no Marks<lb></lb>
of Violence on the Deed's Body,<del>Dept</del>
say that the<del>Dead</del>
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