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<p n="249"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo184">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo185">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="250">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date45">Twelfth day of<lb></lb>
February 1771</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo186">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo187">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo188">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon on<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the Death of a<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Man Unknown lying dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="251"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n251-1">Robert Hodges</rs>
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one of the Watchmen of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo189">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. George Hanr. Square</rs>
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in the Hamlet called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo190">Avery Farm</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That on Sunday Night last as he was<lb></lb>
crying the hour of Twelve in Flosk Lane Mr. Ball who<lb></lb>
keeps the Flask called to Dept. saying that a Man<lb></lb>
lay there making a Noise which prevented his Sleeping<lb></lb>
and desired Dept. to take him away, upon which Deced<lb></lb>
said that he would go with him and Deced walked<lb></lb>
with Dept. into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo191">Chelsea Road</rs>
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, says that Deced appeared<lb></lb>
to be in Liquor and that he told Dept. that he had a lodging<lb></lb>
over the Wooden Bridge, upon which Dept. offered<lb></lb>
to light him home, but Deced said that he would<lb></lb>
go home himself when he got some<del>a little</del>
more Liquor<lb></lb>
Says that he did not see Deced when he cryed the<lb></lb>
hour of One, but at Two o' Clock Deced stood in the foot<lb></lb>
-way about forty yards from Mr. Page's Door and told<lb></lb>
Dept. that he wanted Liquor, That at three o' Clock Deced<lb></lb>
was walking before Mr. Page's Door saying that he wod<lb></lb>
not go from thence until he had some Gin &<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
bud did not call Mr. Page, That at Four o' Clock Deced<lb></lb>
stood up against Mr. Page's Door, and repeated what<lb></lb>
he had said at three, Says that when he cryed the<lb></lb>
hour of Five he found the Deced lying on one side<lb></lb>
at Mr. Page's Door, and Appeared to be a good deal<lb></lb>
Numbe'd with the Cold, Says that he took him and for<lb></lb>
him to set down upon a Bench by the side of Page's<lb></lb>
House where he left , Deced, Says that he asked Deced<lb></lb>
why he did not go home to which he annexed that</p>
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