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<p n="1101"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1096">Westminster</rs>
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, to wit.</note>
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Informations of Witnesses taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65217_date251">13th,<lb></lb>
day of August 1777</rs>
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, at the Dwelling House of Mrs.<lb></lb>
Douglas the Sign of the Golden Lyon at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1097">Hyde Park,<lb></lb>
Corner</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1098">Parish Of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1099">Westminster</rs>
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Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65217_n1101-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Gentleman His Majesty's Coroner for the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1100">City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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, touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65217_n1101-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Simms</rs>
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, then and there lying Dead, on View of the Body</p>
<p n="1102"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65217_n1102-1">Thomas Stone</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65217_occ340">Coachmen</rs>
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to Mr. William Bast who Keeps a<lb></lb>
livery Stable in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1101">New Bond Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65217_geo1102">St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
his Oath saith, that on Thursday the 24th. day of July 1777.<lb></lb>
the Deceased was taking<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dring in a Stable in<lb></lb>
White Horse Yard in the said Street belonging to Mr. Bast, and having a Shovel in<lb></lb>
his hand with Dring, the Deced fell on his face, but whether<lb></lb>
he slipped, or his toes catched in the Paving he cannot tell<lb></lb>
Deponent took him up from the found but not on his Neat and<lb></lb>
found a very large wound on his Head, that bled Considerably<lb></lb>
a Horse or Mare then in the Stable either struck or trad on the Deced, but it was<lb></lb>
So instantaneous that Deponent cannot tell which with</p>
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