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<p n="917"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo811">City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo812">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date179">25th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1762</rs>
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. on an Inquisition on View of the Body<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n917-1">Alexander Mearnes</rs>
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lying dead in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo813">St. Margaret in the City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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<p n="918"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n918-45">George Halfburton Nicholson</rs>
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Strutton Ground in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo814">St. Margaret</rs>
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Usher to Mr. Mearnes on his Oath saith that Yesterday Afternoon<lb></lb>
he and Deced being walking in the Park, and Deced proposed<lb></lb>
going to Row in Q Boat belonging to Mr. Morton in Channel<lb></lb>
Row, says that Deced asked a Person who was in Mr. Morton<lb></lb>
Boat, to let him have the Boat, but deced being asked whether<lb></lb>
he had the Key of the Boat, which Deced had not, but said he<lb></lb>
would fetch it, and in going for it to Mr. Morton in<lb></lb>
stepping over some Barges then floating on the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo815">River Thames</rs>
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in a place called<lb></lb>
Wilkinson<del>Morton's</del>
Wharf in the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo816">St. Margaret</rs>
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, Deced<lb></lb>
Missed his Stop (as Deponent believes) and fell into the Thomas<lb></lb>
says that he saw Deced in the Water and believes he sucked<lb></lb>
under the Barge by the force of the Water, says that in<lb></lb>
about half an hour after Deced was taken out of the Water<lb></lb>
and a Person attempted to Bleed him, but Deced bled very<lb></lb>
little, and Deponent believes Deced was then Dead.</p>
<p n="919">George Haliburton Nicolas<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="920">Sworn the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place above mentioned, before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n920-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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