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<p n="207"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo174">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo175">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65210_date39">First day of February<lb></lb>
1770</rs>
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at the Parish of St. Margaret within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo176">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the Death of a Man unknown<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="208"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n208-99">Altham Corbet</rs>
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one of the Beadles of the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo177">St. Margaret Westmr.</rs>
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in the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo178">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That he was going to London yesterday<lb></lb>
about Noon, and being at Hyde Park Corner was informed<lb></lb>
by the Park keeper's Servant that a Man lay Drowned<lb></lb>
in a Pond in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo179">Hyde Park</rs>
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, says that he returned and in<lb></lb>
a Pond between the two Bridges in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo180">Hyde Park</rs>
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, in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo181">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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. he saw the Deced lying<lb></lb>
with his face downwards, and his back above the Cooter,<lb></lb>
says that the Deced appeared to have been Drowned<lb></lb>
a considerable time, That the Deced was taken out, in Dept. presence<lb></lb>
and was afterwards carried to the watchhouse in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo182">Knightsbridge</rs>
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, That the Body was in a State of Putrefaction<lb></lb>
but Dept. observed no Marks of violence thereon,<lb></lb>
Says that he found a six pence, a half penny, a Knife, a<lb></lb>
Black Silk Neckcloth, a Handkerchief, & a Key, in the<lb></lb>
Deced's Pockets, Says that the Deced's Cloaths were the<lb></lb>
Regimentals worn by the Third Regiment of Guards-That<lb></lb>
he this Dept. left ward at the Tilt yard yesterday, and<lb></lb>
that a Serjeant of the Third Regiment came to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo183">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
yesterday in the Afternoon, and after viewing the Deced said<lb></lb>
that his Name was <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n208-2">Hugh Smith</rs>
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, and that he was a Soldier<lb></lb>
in the third Regiment and had behaved himself very well<lb></lb>
That he had been missing for five or six weeks, That<lb></lb>
he had sometime before that Bruised his Thumb, which<lb></lb>
made the Deced Melancholy and uneasy.</p>
<p n="209">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n209-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65210_occ52">Coroner</rs>
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.}</p>
<p n="210"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n210-1">Altham Corbett</rs>
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