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<p n="1160"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Libty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in <lb></lb>
the County of<lb></lb>
Middx}</note>
</p>
<p n="1161">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date222">Third<lb></lb>
Day of December 1762</rs>
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at the <lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo998">Saint George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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in the said Liberty on an<lb></lb>
inquisition taken on View of<lb></lb>
the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1161-1">Thomas Philpot</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there lying dead.</p>
<p n="1162"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1162-1">Mary Holmes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ364">Spinster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ365">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1162-2">Peter Swan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the Kings Head <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo999">Pimblico</rs>
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Victualer on her<lb></lb>
Oath Saith that Yesterday Morning after giving the<lb></lb>
deced his Breakfast she took deced Stairs his Sea<lb></lb>
Things in order to wash them says his Brother<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1162-58">Daniel Philpot</rs>
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-soon after she come down come to her<lb></lb>
Masters House (where the deced ledged) and asked for <lb></lb>
his Brother (undancing the deced) upon which Dept<lb></lb>
together will said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1162-3">Daniel Philpot</rs>
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went up Stairs to<lb></lb>
the deced's Lodging Room and went into the Room<lb></lb>
and on her seeing the Curtains drawn so and the Bed<lb></lb>
she and dowed there expecting the deced to be on<lb></lb>
the Bed, says she left said Daniel Philpot there and<lb></lb>
went into a other Room, the Dining Room to Cook for <lb></lb>
us deced, and not finding him there she went <del>into</del>
to<lb></lb>
another Room even with it, and open'd the Door, and<lb></lb>
discovered the deced hanging by a Cord fixed to a<lb></lb>
Brass Hook in the Wainscot says the then ran down <lb></lb>
stairs, and desired or fellow Servant to call her Master<lb></lb>
who come, immediately and lifted the deced up<lb></lb>
to disengadge him from the Hook, says that there<lb></lb>
were no Signs of Life in the deced and she believes<lb></lb>
he was then dead. says the deced came to her Master<lb></lb>
House on Monday last very ill, and Dept. set up B<lb></lb>
Eighth with deced upon Account of his Illness<lb></lb>
and Dept deced appeared between whiles to Dept. to be<lb></lb>
very mock disordered in his mind.</p>
<p n="1163">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1163-1">Mary Holmes</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1164"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1164-1">Peter Swan</rs>
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living at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1000">the King's Head</rs>
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in <del>pimblica</del>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1001">pimlico</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ366">Victualer</rs>
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on his Oath Saith that Yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning between nine and ten one of his Maids came to<lb></lb>
the Stable and told Dept. Mr. Philpot had hanged himself<lb></lb>
upon which Dept. immediately ran to his Lodging Room<lb></lb>
and of finding him there, his Brother <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1164-2">Daniel Philpot</rs>
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<lb></lb>
sat crying in a Chair in deceds Lodging Room - says that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1164-3">Mary<lb></lb>
Holmes</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65202_n1164-3" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
informed Dept. that he was hanging in another Room</p>
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