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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1167">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this Seventh day of July 1766<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1168">Parish of St. George</rs>
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within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1170">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisitions<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1264-1">John Creighton</rs>
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lying Dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1265"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1265-1">Maria Barff</rs>
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Servant to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1265-2">William Markey</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1171">New Bond Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1172">Parish of St. George</rs>
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on her Oath saith, That<lb></lb>
the Deced <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1265-3">John Creighton</rs>
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has lodged with said Mr. Mackey on the<lb></lb>
Second Floor, about four or five months last past, Says that the Dept<lb></lb>
and Mr. Mackey come house together between twelve and one o'Clock<lb></lb>
last Saturday Morning (being the fifth day of July Instant) Says that<lb></lb>
the Deced was very much in Liguor and called for his Candle<lb></lb>
upon which Dept. gave him a Candle and Deced immediately were<lb></lb>
up Stairs, Says that about Nine o'Clock the same Morning this<lb></lb>
Dept. took up some whey to the Dept. Room, as she and to do, and<lb></lb>
on the Door which opens between the Deced's Dining Room and<lb></lb>
Bedchamber she saw the Deced Hanging, and thought him Dead, but<lb></lb>
did not then observe the Garter, Says that she run down Stairs any<lb></lb>
Acquainted some of the Family therewith, upon which Mr. Mackey<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1265-4">Mary Maples</rs>
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the other Maid Servant went up Stairs immediately<lb></lb>
and this Dept. soon followed, Says that she then saw the Garter by<lb></lb>
which the Deced was hanging, which was over the Door<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
Says that Mr. Mackie lifted up the Deced and Mary Moples<lb></lb>
cut the Garter with a Penknife, and Deced was laid down upon<lb></lb>
the Floor, Says that the Deced was quite Cold and Stiff, and had<lb></lb>
been Dead (as Dept. believes many hours, and believes that the<lb></lb>
Deced hanged himself, Says that the Deced was naturally of a<lb></lb>
chearful Disposition but that he appeared on Friday last to<lb></lb>
be low Spirited and Melancholy.</p>
<p n="1266"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1266-1">Maria Barff</rs>
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