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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo793">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this Twenty fifth day of<lb></lb>
April 1766 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo794">St. Margaret within</rs>
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the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo795">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo796">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition touching the Death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n878-1">Elizabeth Guy</rs>
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lying Dead in the said Parish City<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="879"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-1">Catherine (Hart</rs>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-2">William Hart</rs>
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,) a Lodger with <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-3">John<lb></lb>
Medley</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo797">Great Peter Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo798">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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Wastin<lb></lb>
on her Oath saith, That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-4">Elizabeth Guy</rs>
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the Deced has been a<lb></lb>
Ledger in the same House with Dept. about twelve months last<lb></lb>
post, and that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-5">Robert Francis</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ277">Shoemaker</rs>
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has lived and<lb></lb>
Cohabited with Deced there for the last six months, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced and said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-6">Robert Francis</rs>
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were after Intexided<lb></lb>
with Liquor, that they then frequently Quarralled and fought<lb></lb>
that the Deced was very Passionate. Says that she had been<lb></lb>
out upon a Sunday about five weeks ago and returned<lb></lb>
home in the Evening, was informed by the Maid Servant at<lb></lb>
the Bull's Head in Peter Street that she had been up to the<lb></lb>
Deced and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-7">Robert Francis</rs>
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with a quarter of Gin, that one of<lb></lb>
them was Bleeding and that the other lay upon the Floor<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced came down he next day and informed<lb></lb>
Dept. that she had reced to Wounds from <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-8">Robert Francis</rs>
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with<lb></lb>
a piece of that Iron which Deced produced, and appeared to be<lb></lb>
about a quarter of a Yard long, and like the handle of a<lb></lb>
frying Pan, Says that the Deced sold the Iron to a Neighbour<lb></lb>
for a halfpenny, and that she this Dept. did not see the<lb></lb>
Deced Wounds, Says that the Deced told Dept. that she was<lb></lb>
several days to the Westmr. Infirmary and borrowed a Clock<lb></lb>
of Dept. to wear thither, and when Deced returned from the<lb></lb>
Infirmary she informed Dept. that her wounds had been<lb></lb>
dressed there, Says that during that time the Deced went<lb></lb>
about her Business, and after her return has said to Dept.<lb></lb>
that her Head smarted in Dressing, and that she believed <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n879-9">Robert<lb></lb>
Francis</rs>
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had given her his last blow. Says that the Deced afternoon<lb></lb>
used to get drunk, and then appeared like a Mad Woman, Say<lb></lb>
that she continued, pretty much in the same State of Health<lb></lb>
until Monday last, when she was sent (as Dept. was informed)</p>
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