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.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo394">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Information of Witness taken this Twelfth<lb></lb>
day of March 1765 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo395">Parish of St. John<lb></lb>
the Evangelist</rs>
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within the City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo396">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an<lb></lb>
Inquisition taken on View of the Body of<lb></lb>
a Man Unknown lying Dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish City Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="368"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n368-1">John Brown</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo397">T<obscured></obscured>
on Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo398">Parish of St. John<lb></lb>
the Evangelist</rs>
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Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ149">Waterman</rs>
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on his Oath saith That he<lb></lb>
was at the Horse Ferry Westmr. about Five o Clock in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon of Saturday last, and that he was there informed<lb></lb>
by a Man (whose Name Dept does not Know) that a Man<lb></lb>
lay Drowned on the Shore upon <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo399">Mill Bank</rs>
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a little higher<lb></lb>
than Lord Grorvenor's House, Deponent says that he walked<lb></lb>
up there and saw the Deced lye upon the Shore a part of him in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo400">the Thames</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of St. John the Evengelist, Says that he fetched his<lb></lb>
Boat and carried the Deced in his Boat to the Horse Fer<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and laid the Deced on the Shore there before Mr. Justices<lb></lb>
House Says that the Deced was Deced when Dept. first<lb></lb>
saw him but not Stiff, Dept. says that he believes<lb></lb>
the Deced was Drowned, but that he observed no<lb></lb>
Marks of Violence upon the Deced</p>
<p n="369">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n369-1">John Brown</rs>
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<p n="370"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n370-1">Joseph Getty</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo401">Little Almery Westmr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ150">Labourer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith that he was standing upon <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo402">Mill Bank</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on Saturday last about five o Clock in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
and leaning over the well before Lord Grosvenor's House<lb></lb>
he saw a Hat in the Thames floating, Says that he went<lb></lb>
down in order to get hold of the Hat, and near the<lb></lb>
Hat saw the Deceds Cloaths above the water, Says that<lb></lb>
he put the Skull under the Deced and lifted him up<lb></lb>
and left him there, Says that the Deced was then<lb></lb>
Dead but Dept. observed no Marks of Violence upon the<lb></lb>
Deced.</p>
<p n="371">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n371-1">Joseph<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Getty</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="372">Severally Sworn the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="373"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n373-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ151">Coroner</rs>
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