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<p n="961"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1167">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1168">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65227_date177">Ninth day<lb></lb>
of July 1787</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1169">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1170">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n961-1">John Gould</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty & County</p>
<p n="962"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n962-1">Peter Murphy</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ814">Bricklayer</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith That on Saturday last the Seventh Instant<lb></lb>
this Dept. worked at Mrs. Ward a Surveyor's House<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1171">Queen Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1172">Parish of St. James</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
Says that about twenty Minutes after three<lb></lb>
o'Clock that Afternoon Dept. went into the<lb></lb>
Back Yard to leave his Tools when he saw the<lb></lb>
Deced lying dead and bleeding from his<lb></lb>
Mouth Nose and Ears and having a large<lb></lb>
Wound on the back part of his Head Says that<lb></lb>
Surgeons were fetched who Examined the<lb></lb>
Deced and endeavoured to bleed him, but<lb></lb>
Deced bled very little, and the Surgeons<lb></lb>
said that he was dead, Says that he observed<lb></lb>
a Machine at a Window over the Place<lb></lb>
where Deced lay, was informed that the<lb></lb>
Deced was a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ815">Painter</rs>
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and believes that he<lb></lb>
Accidentally fell from the said Machine and<lb></lb>
thereby reced the hurt abovementioned</p>
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<p n="964"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n964-1">Thomas Parkinson</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ816">Carpenson</rs>
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<del>a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ817">Carpenter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That he worked last Saturday<lb></lb>
in Repairing a House of Mr. Wards in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1174">Queen<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1175">Parish of St. James</rs>
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Says that he<lb></lb>
saw <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n964-2">John Gould</rs>
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the Deced, who was a Painter<lb></lb>
likewise at Work there Says that about Two<lb></lb>
o'Clock he saw the Deced take the Machine (upon which he painted from one of the Forenoon<lb></lb>
into the Back room, to Paint the outside of the<lb></lb>
Window, Says that about a Quarter after three<lb></lb>
a Brick layer in the Back Yard cryed out<lb></lb>
that a Man was dead there, upon which he<lb></lb>
<del>looked</del>
went down and saw the Deced lye dead there,<lb></lb>
Says</p>
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