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<p n="847"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo935">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this 15th. day of<lb></lb>
July 1776 at the Dwelling House of Mr. Simmonds the<lb></lb>
Sign of the Margins of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo936">Granby's Head</rs>
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Water works Bridge<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo937">Parish of St. George</rs>
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in the Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo939">Westminster</rs>
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. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n847-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
His Majesty's Coroner for the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo940">City and Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of Samuel brent in the said<lb></lb>
Parish then and these lying Dead.</p>
<p n="848"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n848-1">Thomas Rock</rs>
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in Surry near the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo942">Red House</rs>
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Whiten<lb></lb>
Maker on his Oath saith that on Saturday last between 3 & 4<lb></lb>
o'Clock in the Afternoon he was called to the opposite shoe to<lb></lb>
endeavour to take up the Deced who he understood was Drowned<lb></lb>
in the Thames there, and in about three Quarters of an Hour he<lb></lb>
took up the Deced with a fravelling Iron, and the Body of the<lb></lb>
Deced was guite clear and free from any Burise on Wound, and<lb></lb>
Mr. North and Mr. Harris <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ258">Surgeons</rs>
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were sent for and the Dead<lb></lb>
was Rubbed with Sabt, and several other methods were used under<lb></lb>
the Surgeons directions to recover the Deced, but after two Hours or more<lb></lb>
all applications proved ineffectual.</p>
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