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Informations taken this third day of
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September 1765 at the Parish of Mr. Margaret
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on an Inquisition taken on View
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of the Body of
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being Dead in the
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John Wright
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of ax yard in the Parish of
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St. Margaret
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in his Oath saith that he was sent
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for Yesterday Afternoon between six and seven o'Clock
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to Mr.
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William Gibbard
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in Kingstreet westm. to make
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good the Mouth of his Over, Says that he went there, and
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found Mr. Johnson a
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and the Deced was was his Apprentice
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in Mr. Gibbard's Bakehouse, says that
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he Heard two other Boys
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then in the Flue on Funnel of the Over Sweeping
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it, Says that soon after one of the said Boys came out
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and sweated very much, Dept. says that Mr.Johnson
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was gone away before the said Boy came out of the
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Flue, and that he this Dept. said to Deced, now by Boy
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do you go in upon which Deced readily went into
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the Flue of the Queen, says that in about four
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Minutes after Dept. went home,says that in about
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three on four minute after he got home, the young
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Man that he had left in the Bakehouse followed him
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and told him that Boy in the Chimney would be
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Smothered unless he would come to cut a Hole
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in the Brickwork, says that he went there imme-
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diately and found Mr. Johnson the Chimney Sweeper
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endeavouring to cut the Brickwork, Says that
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to took the Hammer out of Mr.Johnson heard and opened a Hole in the
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Chimney, opposite to the Place where Deced was
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Stuck fast, Says that said Mr.Johnson and Dept. took
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Deced out and carried him up Stairs into the Shop
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but Dept. observed no Signs of Life in the Deced
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Says that a surgeon was fetched immediately.
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