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of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date236">22d. day<lb></lb>
of July 1773</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1060">Parish of St. James in the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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at the Dwelling House<lb></lb>
of Mr <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1300-1">Edward Laincey</rs>
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the Sign of the Peter and<lb></lb>
Stay in Peter Street. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1300-2">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ321">Gentleman</rs>
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His Majesty's Coroner for the Said<lb></lb>
City and Liberty touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1300-26">Martin<lb></lb>
Prentice</rs>
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then and there lying Dead as follow</p>
<p n="1301"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1301-1">Sarah Prentice</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ322">Widow</rs>
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of the Deced on her Oath say that last<lb></lb>
Night about 7 o'Clock she came home to her Lodgings at Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1301-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Hands</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1061">Green's Court</rs>
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, she ask'd her Land<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
if her Husband (the Deced) had left the Key, she said she had<lb></lb>
not seen him go out, the Deponent then went up Stairs and found<lb></lb>
the Door half open, and she went in, and there saw her Husband<lb></lb>
hanging by the Closed Door with his Trace toward the Closet, she<lb></lb>
Cried out and some Person came up and cut him down, Says she<lb></lb>
next her Husband about 2 Hours before in the Here and followed him<lb></lb>
home, she asked him if the wanted any thing he said no, Let him<lb></lb>
alone, says the beleives be was Labor, Says she beleives Misfortune<lb></lb>
is Life drove him into Despair, and that he was very uneasy in his<lb></lb>
Mind, says she believes he must have hing himself, says he</p>
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