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<p n="168"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo168">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo169">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date35">Seventh day<lb></lb>
of February 1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo170">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo171">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon on<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n168-1">Edward<lb></lb>
Miller</rs>
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lyine dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="169"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n169-1">James Sowerby</rs>
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Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n169-99">Richard. Weight</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo172">Pimlico</rs>
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Painter on his Oath saith That he came home<lb></lb>
to Mr. Wrights yesterday about four o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
afternoon and found <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n169-3">Edward Miller</rs>
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the Deced there<lb></lb>
who asked Dept. logs to Shait with him to which Dept.<lb></lb>
agreed, and they both accordingly went to a Pond<lb></lb>
by the side of the Kings Road near <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo173">Bloody Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo174">Parish of St. George Hanr Square</rs>
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, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced put on his Skeats an<obscured></obscured>
Went<lb></lb>
upon the See and<obscured></obscured>
ated about ten Minutes<lb></lb>
Says that he his Dept. went on the Ice a<lb></lb>
little way but finding it long<obscured></obscured>
ous, he came off<lb></lb>
again and desired Deced to come off, but Deced<lb></lb>
would not, and very soon after the Ice broke<lb></lb>
and Deced fell into the Water and was Drowned<lb></lb>
Says that there was no Person upon the Ice<lb></lb>
near to the Deced when he fell in, and that<lb></lb>
Deceds death was merely Accidental by the<lb></lb>
breaking of the Ice.</p>
<p n="170">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n170-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ48">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="171"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n171-1">James Sowerby</rs>
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