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Informations of Witnesses severally taken and
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acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King
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aforesaid Coal heaver Upon his Oath
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Saith That on Thursday the Second day of February instant
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about Nine of the Clock in the forenoon he was sitting in
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The Father of the deceased and on a Sudden heard the Mother
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of the deceased scream out and Say Oh' dear my Child
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will be Killed upon which this Deponent opened the
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Door of the Tap room and ran out and as soon as he
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came to the Door he saw the deceased just under the Wheel
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of a Brick Cart with two Wheels loaded with Cuider and
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drawn by two Horses which appeared at that instant to have gone our his Bodyand he immediately went up to
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the Spot where the Accident happened. and look the
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into his Arms but whether this Deponent
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took up the deceased himself or whether The Carter
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who was driving the Cart (and whose name he hath
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since heard is
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gave him to this Deponent or not. he cannot now.
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remember being in so great a fright upon the occasion.
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