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<p n="343"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo391">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo392">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty fourth<lb></lb>
day of March 1779 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo393">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo394">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo395">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n343-1">John Wisdom</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty & County.</p>
<p n="344"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n344-1">John Bitton</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ108">Laborer</rs>
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, at the Sign of the<lb></lb>
Grey hound in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo396">Brick Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo397">Parish of St<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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Hanr. Square, on his Oath saith, That he<lb></lb>
occasionally worked for <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n344-2">John Wisdom</rs>
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the Deced<lb></lb>
who Sold Coals, in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo398">Brick Street</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
and that on Monday Night lost (March 22d.)<lb></lb>
he went to the Deced who was in Bed. ill,<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced got up, and in about<lb></lb>
half an hour went into Bed again, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced complained much of his<lb></lb>
Head and said that he was uneasy in<lb></lb>
his Mind, and that he<del>should</del>
had never had<lb></lb>
a happy day since he left the Stables in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo399">Park Lane</rs>
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and believed he should or ever<lb></lb>
have another, Says that the Deced told<lb></lb>
Dept. to be save to come there in the<lb></lb>
Morning, Says that he left Deced in<lb></lb>
Bed between Ten and Eleven o Clock<lb></lb>
and went home, Says that he went to<lb></lb>
Deced's House the next Morning a little<lb></lb>
after Six o'Clock (Mar. 23d.) and being<lb></lb>
informed by Mrs. Wisdom that the Deced was<lb></lb>
got up, desired to look for him, Says<lb></lb>
that on looking into the Necessary House he<lb></lb>
saw the Deced Hanging by a Cord fastened to<lb></lb>
the Rafter, but Dept. was frightened, & went<lb></lb>
to acquaint Mrs. Wisdom, and some of the</p>
<p n="345">Neighbours</p>
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