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<p n="2001"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1923">City & Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1924">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
this 12th. Oct 1795 at the House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2001-1">Daniel Greenaway</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1925">Sign of the George</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1926">George Court</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1927">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2001-2">Thomas Gordon</rs>
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then & there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1273">lying dead</rs>
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<p n="2002"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2002-1">Margaret Pettman</rs>
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savt to Mr. Morison<lb></lb>
being Sworn depose & saith that the Deced in lived<obscured></obscured>
Brown<lb></lb>
Wme Much abt. 6 Month but past that Yesterday he & his Bror<lb></lb>
who also lives with<obscured></obscured>
Brown went to dine into some Friends at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1928">Wapping</rs>
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the Dept where 10 o' Clock & saw nothing of the<lb></lb>
Deced last hight the row this Morning abt. ¼ before or of the<lb></lb>
Clock being the first person where was up & went down Stairs & there<lb></lb>
sair the Deced lying on the Stairs which leads to the passage<lb></lb>
she observed much Blood about the Deced whereupon she went<lb></lb>
immediately & called thereon<obscured></obscured>
to Mr. Brown who<lb></lb>
got up immediately & went to his Deced. They found him quite<lb></lb>
dead &<obscured></obscured>
saith that the Deced frequently has<lb></lb>
come into the House with same Manner<obscured></obscured>
who must<lb></lb>
have done last night she does not know when he come<lb></lb>
home then Dept. has never seen<obscured></obscured>
in liquor but the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
no doubt but that his Le<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
eath<del>it</del>
was quite accidental & she<lb></lb>
is confident that no person was up in this House at the<lb></lb>
time the Deced came home <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2002-2">Margat Pettman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2002-3">James Gordon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1274">Bror to Deced</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being Sworn & with that Lect his Bror Dined in the some Friends on<lb></lb>
Bomsard the Charlotte from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1929">Aberdeen</rs>
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yesterday at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1930">Wapping</rs>
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his sine that his<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
was not in Liquor horn abt. 8 o'Clock & both came to his<lb></lb>
Lodging between 10 & 11 o'Clock they had a porter & some<lb></lb>
Bread & the Cheese & the Deced went between 11 & 12 of the o'Clock once be heard no more<lb></lb>
of him<obscured></obscured>
further he knownth not.</p>
<p n="2003">Verdict <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2003-1">Jas. Gordon</rs>
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<p n="2004">Accidental Death <lb></lb>
Bone</p>
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