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<p n="1495"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1436">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1437">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date289">Sixteenth day of<lb></lb>
November 1768</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1438">St. Anne within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1439">County of Middlesex</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
on an Inquisition touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1495-1">Alexander<lb></lb>
Mc. Cloughlin</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="1496"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1496-1">William Groote</rs>
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of Nassan Street <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ434">Apothecary</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith That in his Way home last night a little before Twelve o'Clock<lb></lb>
this Dept. hearing a Noise in Gerrard Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1440">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Ann Westmr</rs>
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. and upon Enquiry was informed that a<lb></lb>
Man had been run over by a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Coach in that Street<lb></lb>
and Mr.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Ainge one of the Church Wardens desired<lb></lb>
Mr. Groote to go to the Watch house (where the Man was taken<lb></lb>
to Bleed him, Says that he went immediately to the<lb></lb>
watchhouse and found the Deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in a Chair and<lb></lb>
a Gentleman just going to Bleed him, Says that Deced<lb></lb>
bled a few<obscured></obscured>
rops only, and appeared to be Dead, having<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Pulse that could be discovered. Says that on Examining<lb></lb>
the Deced he found a small Wound on the left side of<lb></lb>
his Mouth, and a Largerated<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<del>considerable</del>
Contusion on the<lb></lb>
left Temple, which Dept. believes to be the Cause of<lb></lb>
Deced's Death. And this Dept. further saith that on<lb></lb>
Examining the Body this day, he found the Stomach<lb></lb>
Swelled.</p>
<p n="1497"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1497-1">Willm. Groote</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1498"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1498-57">James Wike</rs>
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of Gerrard Street <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ435">Apothecary</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith, That last Night before Twelve oClock, on some<lb></lb>
Person knocking at Depts. Door, he opened it and saw the<lb></lb>
Deced upon the Step before his Door held up by the<lb></lb>
Watchman and Others who desired this Dept. to bleed him<lb></lb>
Says that he felt the Deced but could discover no Pulse, Says<lb></lb>
that he Advised the Deced's being carried to some House and<lb></lb>
he would attempt to bleed him, and Deced was carried to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1441">Sworn Tavern</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1442">Grafton Street</rs>
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, and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the People refused<lb></lb>
to take the Deced in as Dept. was informed Says that the<lb></lb>
Deced was then carried upon a Horn to the Parish Whitchhouse</p>
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