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<p n="935"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1016">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1017">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty first<lb></lb>
day of May 1784 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1018">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1019">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon an Inquisition touching the Death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n935-1">Edmund<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Padbury</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="936"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n936-1">John Martin</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ626">Servant</rs>
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to Bonyfint at the<lb></lb>
Engine House in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1020">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1021">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1022">Hanover Square</rs>
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on his Oath saith That<lb></lb>
this Morning about five o'Clock he went to turn the<lb></lb>
water out of the Bason in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1023">Hyde Park</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
in the Water in the Bason saw some part of<lb></lb>
the Deced's Coat, Says that the Deced floated<lb></lb>
and that with a Drag this Dept. pulled the<lb></lb>
Deced, towards the Shore, and fastened him<lb></lb>
Says that he went to acquaint Mr. Storar<lb></lb>
the Undertaken and returned to the Deced<lb></lb>
and with the Assistance of another Man<lb></lb>
pulled him out of the Water, the Deced<lb></lb>
being dead, but did not appear to have<lb></lb>
been long Drowned, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
had a small Scratch by the side of his<lb></lb>
Nose, but observed no Marks of violence<lb></lb>
upon the Deced, Says that he heard no<lb></lb>
Noise or crying out in the Park either<lb></lb>
last Night or this Morning.</p>
<p n="937"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n937-1">John Martin</rs>
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<p n="938"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n938-1">Ann Preston</rs>
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an her Oath saith. That about<lb></lb>
the Tenth of this Instant she took a Room in the<lb></lb>
Deced's House in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1024">Mount Street</rs>
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and that she<lb></lb>
did in order to take care of the Deced, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced was in Depts Room all day,<lb></lb>
Yesterday, That<del>that</del>
about Ten o'Clock<lb></lb>
last Night a Young Woman who slept with<lb></lb>
this</p>
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