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Informations taken this Eighteenth day
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of Samuel Syar lying Dead in the said
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a Corporal in Colonel Sorell Company in the
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Westmr. on Wednesday Evening last, Says that the Deced
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drunk a good deal of Bear there, and would have had
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more but was refused by Mrs. King, the Landlady, Saying
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that he was either in Liquor, or in one of his crazy
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Humours Says that the Deced came from thence with Dept.
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before ten O Clock that Evening, but Deced refused to go
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to his Lodgings and left the Dept. Says that he soon after
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found Deced at the
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, near the Broad Way Chapel
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drinking a Glass of Geneva, Says that the Deced came
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out from thence with Dept. and refused again to go to
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his Lodging the pressed by Dept. to go, Says that Deced
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got look from Dept. and run away towards
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and Deponent could
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not overtake him, Deponent says that he was yesterday
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at the Tilt Yard about half an hour after two o Clock
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when a Soldier came there and informed the Paymaster
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Drowned on
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Says that Serjeant Waller
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was sent immediately to see if he knew him, says
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that the Serjeant non returned and informed Dept.
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that it was Samuel Syar the Deced, Says that he came
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Westmr. Says that the
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that he observed a Scar upon the Deced; Nose, and the
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Skin rubbed off his Nuckles, but that he observed no Marks
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say that the
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