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of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2029">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this first day of<lb></lb>
October 1795 at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2030">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2031">Parish of St. Margaret</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2032">Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr.</rs>
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in the County of Midsex upon an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death & <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1612-1">Edmund<lb></lb>
Edwards</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1581">lying dead</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1613"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1613-1">William Paxley</rs>
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of South Audley Street in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2033">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1582">Baker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That yesterday Morning<lb></lb>
walking in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2034">Hyde Park</rs>
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Dept. was informed that<lb></lb>
a Hat had been found upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2035">Serpentine River</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2036">Hyde Park</rs>
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, Says That this Morning between<lb></lb>
six and Seven o'Clock Dept. went into<lb></lb>
Hyd. Park again and suspecting that a<lb></lb>
Person was Drowned in the Serpentine<lb></lb>
River That he threw a small Drag<lb></lb>
into the River and it catched hold of<lb></lb>
the Deceds Coat Thoave, (the Cloaths being on)<lb></lb>
and pulled the Deced to the Share in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2037">St. Margaret Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Says that no Marks of violence appeared<lb></lb>
on the Deced, nor did he appeared have<lb></lb>
been long Drowned,</p>
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<p n="1615">Sworn the Day Year<lb></lb>
& Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1615-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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