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<p n="1417"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1440">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1441">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date290">Twenty fourth day<lb></lb>
of October 1774</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1442">St. Martin viz<lb></lb>
the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1417-1">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ448">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1417-2">Timothy<lb></lb>
Lewis</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="1418"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1418-1">William Norton</rs>
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of the Straced Surgeon on his<lb></lb>
Oath Saith That he this day Examined the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1418-2">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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the Deced and found no Marks of<lb></lb>
violence thereupon, and believes that the Deced<lb></lb>
died in a natural way.</p>
<p n="1419"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1419-1">Wm. Norton</rs>
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<p n="1420"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1420-1">Lucy Douglas</rs>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1420-2">Walter Douglas</rs>
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of Prince<lb></lb>
Court <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1443">Hedge Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1444">Parish of St. Martin in<lb></lb>
the Fields</rs>
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on her Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1420-3">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Deced<del>the Deced</del>
yesterday about three o'Clock<lb></lb>
in the Afternoon looked out of her Garret Window<lb></lb>
and desired Dept. to come to drink a Dish of<lb></lb>
Tea with her, upon which Dept. went into Deced's<lb></lb>
Room and found Deced and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1420-4">Timothy Lewis</rs>
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her<lb></lb>
Husband sitting together by the Fire in a friendly<lb></lb>
manner, Says that She left them there and went<lb></lb>
home, Says that bout five o'Clock Dept. went<lb></lb>
again into Deced's Room, and found the Door open<lb></lb>
and seeing <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1420-5">Timothy Lewis</rs>
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asleep upon the Bed<lb></lb>
she called him several times and he awoke<lb></lb>
Says that she then saw the Deced lying in a Chair,<lb></lb>
the Back of which rested upon the feet of the Bed<lb></lb>
Says that she called to Deced and having no Answer<lb></lb>
she went down Stairs and called Mrs. Coleman<lb></lb>
who came up with Dept. into Deced's Room and<lb></lb>
found that she was dead. but not Cold, Says<lb></lb>
that</p>
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