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Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1935">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date475">Twenty eighth day of<lb></lb>
December 1773</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1936">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1937">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1938">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2453-1">John Rand</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="2454"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2454-1">John Perrins</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1939">the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1940">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ603">Watchmaker</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That Yesterday Morning he was sent for to Mrs. Rand's<lb></lb>
in Ship Yard Temple Barr in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1941">St. Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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, Says that he went<obscured></obscured>
there saw the Body<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2454-2">John Rand</rs>
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the Deced and two Men who they said had<lb></lb>
brought him there, and that by Grapling they had<lb></lb>
drawn him out of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1942">River Thames</rs>
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opposite <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1943">the<lb></lb>
Tower</rs>
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to the Shore, Says that one of the Men<lb></lb>
was a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ604">Sailor</rs>
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, who said that he belonged to the Ship<lb></lb>
Nancy, and that the Deced was a Tidewaiter and<lb></lb>
had been some time on Board the said Ship,That<lb></lb>
the Deced was on Board the Ship on Friday Night<lb></lb>
last and Accidentally fell over Board that Night<lb></lb>
being much in Liquor, and was Drowned, Says<lb></lb>
that the other Man was a Tide waiter and had<lb></lb>
been with Deced on Board the Nancy, Says that<lb></lb>
the Deced's Watch was in his Fob and three shilling<lb></lb>
and six pence in his Pocket, Says that on<lb></lb>
Saturday last (Decr. 25th.) this Dept. (by the desire of<lb></lb>
Mrs. Rand, the Deced's Wife, who had been that Morning<lb></lb>
informed of her Husband being Drowned) went on<lb></lb>
Board the Ship Nancy lying off <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1944">the Tower</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
after asking the Mate and four or five Sailors then<lb></lb>
on Board Several Questions, he was informed by the<lb></lb>
Mate "That he and the Deced had been drinkg. Porter and<lb></lb>
"Grog together freely ever Night, on Board the Ship<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
until about<lb></lb>
"Eleven o'Clock and that the Deced was very much<lb></lb>
in</p>
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