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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo352">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty second day<lb></lb>
of February 1766. at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo353">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo354">St. Margaret within</rs>
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the City and Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo355">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the Death of a Woman Unknown lying<lb></lb>
Dead in the said Parish City Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="388"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n388-1">Joseph Williams</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ119">Servant</rs>
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to the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Company of the Chelsea Water Works<lb></lb>
in the Capacity of Turncock on his Oath saith, That on Thursday<lb></lb>
Morning last about half an hour after ten o'Clock Dept. was in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo356">Hyde Park</rs>
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<lb></lb>
when a Gentleman and his Servant came up to him on Horselow<lb></lb>
and the Gentleman said that he believed a Woman was Drowned<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo357">Serpentine River</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo358">Hyde Park</rs>
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, not for from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo359">Kensington<lb></lb>
Garden Wall</rs>
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, Says that he immediately went there, with<lb></lb>
another Man, whose Name Dept. does not know, and Discovered<lb></lb>
the Deced in the Serpentine River about three Yards from<lb></lb>
with her fare downwards<lb></lb>
the Shore, Says that the other Man went into the River<lb></lb>
aged with the Assistance of Deponent pulled the Deced to the<lb></lb>
Shore in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo360">St. Margaret Westminster</rs>
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, Says that<lb></lb>
She was then Dead but Dept. observes no Marks of Violence<lb></lb>
upon the Deced, Says that he did not know the Deced</p>
<p n="389">Sworn the Day year & Place<lb></lb>
above mentioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n389-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<p n="390"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n390-1">Joseph William</rs>
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