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<p n="1130"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
County of Middx}</note>
</p>
<p n="1131">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date218">29th<lb></lb>
Day of November 1762</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo981">Saint James within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. on View of <lb></lb>
the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1131-1">Christopher Oliphant</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1131-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
there lying dead.</p>
<p n="1132"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1132-1">Ann Berry</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1132-1" type="surname" value="Berry"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1132-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
Widow Servant to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1132-2">William Ludbey</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1132-2" type="surname" value="Ludbey"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1132-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo982">Piccadilly</rs>
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Stone Mason on her Oath Saith that<lb></lb>
for about two Months last past the deced was employ'd<lb></lb>
in her Masters Service in Cleaning the Knives and<lb></lb>
Clacking his Shoes says that on Saturday Morning<lb></lb>
about Nine the deced came to her Mastors House and<lb></lb>
cleaned the Knives & Clached the shoes in a <del>Clac</del>
back<lb></lb>
Cellar where he used to do them; says that her Fellow<lb></lb>
Servant <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1132-4">Mary Ann Bright</rs>
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went to the such by the<lb></lb>
Cellar Door to Pour down Serve water, and directly<lb></lb>
returned to Dept., and informed her that the Watchman<lb></lb>
(meaning the deced) was in a very add posture and desired<lb></lb>
Dept, to go and see, says she went into the Collar and<lb></lb>
took held of the deced who was upon his Knees, and<lb></lb>
Shook him, and asked him what was the matter, and<lb></lb>
on his making no Answer she observed that he was<lb></lb>
hanging by the neck, a Hankerchief being tyed<lb></lb>
round his neck and about a Leaden Pipe which<lb></lb>
carried the coater up to the waste house upon which<lb></lb>
she took up a Knife and out the Hankerchief and be<lb></lb>
fell against a Barrel ag in the Collar says he was<lb></lb>
Motion less and Dept. believes he was then dead. that<lb></lb>
she immediately acquainted her master and mistress<lb></lb>
thereof and an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ356">Apothecary</rs>
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was Seat for and<del>the deced<lb></lb>
was lot Blood in Dept.</del>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he attempted to let<lb></lb>
the deced Blood but to no purpose the deced being then<lb></lb>
dead as the Apothecary declared</p>
<p n="1133">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1133-1">Ann Berry</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1134">said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1134-1">Ann Berry</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1134-1" type="given" value="Ann"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1134-1" type="surname" value="Berry"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1134-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
says she has seen the Body of a <lb></lb>
man in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo983">St. James's work house</rs>
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and that he is the<lb></lb>
same person she cut down in her Master's Cellar.</p>
<p n="1135">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1135-1">Ann Berry</rs>
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