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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo495">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date120">tenth day of June 1763</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo496">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo497">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, on an Inquisition taken<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n548-1">Tobias Ewbank</rs>
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lying Dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish and Liberty.</p>
<p n="549"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n549-1">Samuel Smith</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n549-2">Thomas Whitmore</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo498">Oxford<lb></lb>
Road</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo499">St. Mary le bone</rs>
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. on his Oath saith, That<lb></lb>
Yesterday Morning<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
between seven & eight o' Clock, Depont.<lb></lb>
being at Work at Mr. Gilbert a Smith in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo500">Oxford Road</rs>
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, was<lb></lb>
called out by a Woman, whose name is <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n549-4">Mary Ashmore</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
desired<del>informed</del>
him to come to the Deced's Cellar, saying she<lb></lb>
believed that the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65203_occ190">Cobler</rs>
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(meaning the Deced) was Dead & up right says<lb></lb>
that he and his Shopman <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n549-5">John Nicoll</rs>
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immediately went<lb></lb>
to the Cellar where deced lodger in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo501">Oxford Road</rs>
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and found the Deced there Hanging by a Cord<lb></lb>
fastened to the Supporter of a Shelf in a Closet in the said Cellar<lb></lb>
says that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n549-6">John Nicoll</rs>
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lifted up the Deced and Deponent<lb></lb>
with his Knife cut the Cord by which he hung, but says<lb></lb>
that Deced was then Dead, and that the Deced was then laid<lb></lb>
upon the Bad in the said Cellar</p>
<p n="550"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n550-1">Samuel Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<lb></lb>
his Mark</p>
<p n="551"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n551-1">Mary Ashmore</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. Gilbert in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo502">Oxford Road</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n551-2">John Ashmore</rs>
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, on her Oath Saith, that Yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning about Eight o'Clock Deponent went to a Chandler's<lb></lb>
shop to My some Soap, and whole she was there a woman<lb></lb>
whose name is <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n551-3">Elizabeth Burnett</rs>
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, came in and desired Depont.<lb></lb>
to go to the Cellar where Deced lodged, for that she believed<lb></lb>
that he was Dead, says she went first into the Cellar and<lb></lb>
was followed by <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n551-4">Elizabeth Burnett</rs>
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, and Mr. Harrop who keeps<lb></lb>
the Chandler's Shop, and then asked the Deced Wife<lb></lb>
where he was, says the deced's wife shewed the Place<lb></lb>
where the deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
stood up as Deponent apprehended<lb></lb>
but not not know that Deced was Dead, says that the Deced's<lb></lb>
Wife then evening her hands and cryed very much, says<lb></lb>
<del>that afterwards finding that the Deced eas Deced,</del>
the Deced's<lb></lb>
Wife desired Deponent to bring Deced to the Bed, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced's Wife told Deponent that<del>Deced</del>
she missed</p>
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