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<p n="1522"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1690">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1691">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty<lb></lb>
Ninth day of December 1781 at the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1692">St. Margaret within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1522-1">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="1523"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1523-1">John Burgess Gurney</rs>
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at the Sign of the Red Lyon<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1693">Parliament Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1694">St. Margt.<lb></lb>
Westmr.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65221_occ1057">Victualler</rs>
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on his Oath saith That<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1523-2">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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the Deced lived Servant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
with this Dept. about four Months last past<lb></lb>
was a very Sober and honest Person, Says<lb></lb>
that yesterday about four o'Clock in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
Dept. went out leaving the Deced in his<lb></lb>
House about her Business Says that he<lb></lb>
returned home about<obscured></obscured>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
o'Clock last<lb></lb>
Night and soon Missed the Deced. That<lb></lb>
on asking where she was Mrs. Gurney<lb></lb>
answered that she was backward crying<lb></lb>
as usual That a little after Mrs. Gurney<lb></lb>
went to the Kitchen backwards and calling<lb></lb>
the Deced and having no answer was<lb></lb>
afraid that something was a<obscured></obscured>
, upon<lb></lb>
which Dept. went to the Kitchen Door which<lb></lb>
he found Locked and the Key in the Lock on the<lb></lb>
inside of the Door, that he endeavoured to<lb></lb>
open the Door and that some Person with a<lb></lb>
Poker forced it open, upon which he went<lb></lb>
into the Kitchen and saw the Deced hanging<lb></lb>
by a Silk Handkerchief, which was tied to<lb></lb>
the bottom barr of the Jack there and about<lb></lb>
her Neck, Says that with his Knife he cut<lb></lb>
the</p>
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