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<p n="739"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo582">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo583">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="740">Information taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65210_date127">Second day of May 1770</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo584">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo585">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n740-1">John Robinson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty & County.</p>
<p n="741"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n741-1">William Thompson</rs>
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Parkkeeper and Deer keeper, at the<lb></lb>
Gate on the top of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo586">Constitution Hill</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo587">Green Park</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
his Oath saith, That he was going along, between five and<lb></lb>
Six o' Clock yesterday Morning by the side of a Pond on<lb></lb>
Reservoir<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at the upper end of the Green Park near the Gate<lb></lb>
leading into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo588">Piccadilly</rs>
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(called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo589">Lord Batlis Gate</rs>
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) Says that<lb></lb>
he saw the Body of the Deced floating upon the water<lb></lb>
in the Reservoir with the face downwards about six<lb></lb>
Yards from the Shore, Says that he could not then reach<lb></lb>
the Body, but went home for a Pole with a Hook to it,<lb></lb>
and soon returned with a Hook, and found <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n741-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Hemmel</rs>
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, who turns on the Water there, being the Deced<lb></lb>
Says that said Hemmel with the Hook pulled the Deced<lb></lb>
to the Shore, and with Depts. Assistance laid the Deced on<lb></lb>
the Bank by the side of the Reservoir, Says that one of<lb></lb>
the Deced's Breeches Pockets was turned inside out<lb></lb>
but they observed no Marks of violence upon the Deced<lb></lb>
who did not appear to have been long drowned, Says<lb></lb>
that they Searched the Deced's Pockets but found no<lb></lb>
Money on things of Value therein, Says that he left<lb></lb>
the Body by the side of the Reservoir, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo590">Parish of<lb></lb>
St Martin in the Fields</rs>
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, Says that three Women were<lb></lb>
walking on the opposite side of the Reservoir when Dept.<lb></lb>
found the Deced, and that one of them picked up<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at out of the Water.</p>
<p n="742"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n742-1">William Thompson</rs>
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</p>
<p n="743">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me}</p>
<p n="744"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n744-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65210_occ209">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
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