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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo824">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken the First day of May<lb></lb>
1766 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo825">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo826">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
on an Inquisition touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n912-1">Matthew<lb></lb>
Green</rs>
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a lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="913"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n913-4">John Girdleston</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo827">Langley Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo828">Parish of St. Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ286">Carpenter</rs>
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on his Oath saith, That between six<lb></lb>
and seven o'Clock this Morning Dept. was alarmed by his Wife<lb></lb>
who said that a Labourer had informed her that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n913-1">Matthew<lb></lb>
Greenaker</rs>
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the Deced had hanged himself in his Room upon which<lb></lb>
Dept. took a Ladder and put it up against the House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n913-2">Thomas Harris</rs>
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in said Street, where Deced lodged, Says<lb></lb>
that he went up the Ladder put up the Jash of Deced Room<lb></lb>
on the First Floor and went in, and was followed immediately by<lb></lb>
Mr. Harris, Says that he then Discovered the Deced Hanging<lb></lb>
by the Side of the Bad, with a small Lord about his Neck<lb></lb>
which was fixed to an Iron hook drove into one of the<lb></lb>
Joiffs, Says that he put his Hand upon the Deceds Should<lb></lb>
and found him quite Stiff and told, and believes that the<lb></lb>
Deced had been Dead some time, Says that the Deceds<lb></lb>
Room door was single locked (being a Spring Lock,) and<lb></lb>
the Key in the Lock on the inside of the Room. and Says<lb></lb>
that the Door did not appear to be at all forced. Says that<lb></lb>
he has known the Deced about fifteen Years, and that<lb></lb>
he was at times very low Spirited and Melancholy.<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced has had losses, which greatly<lb></lb>
troubled him.</p>
<p n="914"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n914-1">John Girdleston</rs>
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</p>
<p n="915"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n915-1">James Catling</rs>
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Servant to Mr. Luckyn in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo829">Leicester Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That he has known the Deced five on Six<lb></lb>
Years and that the Deced used to call upon this Depont. very<lb></lb>
often, that he used to be low Spirited, and particularly of<lb></lb>
late, Says that the Deced called upon Deced on Tuesday</p>
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