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<p n="1436"> <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date266">28th. July 1773</rs>
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<p n="1437">Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1437-1">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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<p n="1438">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1438-1">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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on the 27th. day of July 1773, being<lb></lb>
lying in a certain Place called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1148">George and Plow Yard</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1149">St. Margaret Westminster</rs>
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and being much intoxicated with<lb></lb>
Liquor it so happened that by means thereof she was Choaked<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Strangled of which said Choaking Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1438-2">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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then and there Died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors on their Oath says that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1438-3">Eleanor<lb></lb>
Tomkins</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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otherwise the Witness whereof the Foreman on behalf of himself<lb></lb>
& the rest of the Jurors has hereunto set his hand this 28th, day<lb></lb>
of July 1773.</p>
<p n="1439"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1439-59">Walter Tyrrell</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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