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<p n="1725"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1450">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date332">1st. day of August 1772</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1451">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
Martin in the Fields</rs>
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at the Dwelling House<lb></lb>
of Mr. Frost the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1452">White Bear</rs>
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in Hanover Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1453">Long Acre</rs>
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. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1725-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ477">Coroner</rs>
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for the City<lb></lb>
and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1454">Westminster</rs>
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touching the Death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1725-2">Catherine Fitzpatrick</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying Dead as follow</p>
<p n="1726"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1726-1">Peter Fitzpatrick</rs>
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the Husband of the Deced who lodgers next<lb></lb>
Door to the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1455">Whitebear</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1456">Hanover Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1457">Long Acre</rs>
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in a House<lb></lb>
belonging to Mr. Frost let out in Tenements on his Oath Says<lb></lb>
that last Night at past 10 o'Clock he came home and went up<lb></lb>
Stairs, and found the Door on a Far and pushed it open, and<lb></lb>
went to feel whether the Bedsted was turned down, but found it<lb></lb>
was not, Deponent then went to the Chimney piece and Struck<lb></lb>
a light and light a Candle, and then looked round him and<lb></lb>
Saw his Wife hanging, and being very much Surprized went out<lb></lb>
of the room into the next and called the People that were there</p>
<p n="1727">and then went to Mr. Morris's China Man in Great Lacon Street to<lb></lb>
Some People that he had been in Company with, and they came<lb></lb>
back with him, Deponent left his Wife in the Room about 8<lb></lb>
o'Clock in the Morning and drank a Dram together, and about<lb></lb>
9 o'Clock in the Morning he met her in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1458">Duny Lane</rs>
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, Says she<lb></lb>
was subject to Liquor.</p>
<p n="1728"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1728-1">George Frost</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1459">Hanover Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1460">Long Acre</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ478">Victualler</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
Says that the Deceased came Yesterday about 4 o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon with a Chair in her hand and she ask'd Deponent<lb></lb>
if he did not think she had bought a Bargain, he said he did<lb></lb>
not know what she had given for it, and she said Nine pence<lb></lb>
and Deponent let her have a Glass of Gin for scowering her<lb></lb>
Rooms the Deponent being the Landlord of the House, did<lb></lb>
not make any particular Observation.</p>
<p n="1729"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1729-1">Mary Norton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ479">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1729-2">William Norton</rs>
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on her Oath Says That<lb></lb>
She Saw the Deceased Yesterday Morning between 10 & 11 oClock<del>in<lb></lb>
the</del>
in the Passage of their House, the Deceased said I ask your</p>
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