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<p n="822"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo696">City & Liberty of <lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo697">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="823">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date144">Twenty ninth <lb></lb>
day of May 1773</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo698">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo699">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n823-1">Samuel Touchet</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ197">Esqr</rs>
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. lying dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="824"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n824-1">Elizabeth Taylor</rs>
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on her Oath saith That she has<lb></lb>
lived about Twenty Years last past in the Family<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n824-2">Samuel Touchet</rs>
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. the Deced, Says that she<lb></lb>
Breakfasted yesterday Morning about Nine o'Clock<lb></lb>
with the Deced and Mrs. Toucket at his House in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo700">Prince's Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo701">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
Says that she went away after Breakfast about <lb></lb>
some Business leaving the Deced in the Drawing Room<lb></lb>
on the First Floor, where they Breakfasted, Says that<lb></lb>
Mrs. Touchet went out and returned a Little<lb></lb>
before four o'Clock that afternoon, Says that Mrs. Toucher<lb></lb>
soon after came up to Dept. who was in the Second Floor <lb></lb>
and appearing to be much Frightened, desired Dept.<lb></lb>
to come down, and said that her Bedchamber Door <lb></lb>
was fastened, upon which Dept went down with<lb></lb>
Mrs. Touchet found one of Mr Touchet's Bedchamber Doors<lb></lb>
fastened, Dept. went round to the other Badchamber <lb></lb>
Door and opened it, (the same not being fastened)<lb></lb>
and on her going into the Room she saw the Deced<lb></lb>
Hanging by a Cord which was fastened to the<lb></lb>
Post at the Feet of the Bed or the Cornice near<lb></lb>
it at the side of the Bed, Says that with a Knife<lb></lb>
she cut the Cord and Deced dropped down upon the <lb></lb>
Floor, Says that Mrs. Fouchet immediately sent<lb></lb>
for a surgeon as Dept. thought. and Dept. believes<lb></lb>
that the Deced Hanged himself, Says that the <lb></lb>
Deced yesterday Morning at Breakfast was very<lb></lb>
Melancholy</p>
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