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<p n="147"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo141">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo142">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date30">Fourth day<lb></lb>
of February 1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo143">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo144">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n147-1">James Sanders</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="148"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n148-1">John Beardmore</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo145">Piccadilly</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo146">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That Yesterday Morning (Feb 3d.)<lb></lb>
about half hour after Ten o'Clock Dept. went into the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo148">Green Park</rs>
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; and saw <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n148-2">James Saunders</rs>
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the Deced Skaiting<lb></lb>
upon the Reservior there, Says that a Gentleman's<lb></lb>
Servant was then putting on his Skaits by the side<lb></lb>
of the Reservior saying that it was bad Skaiting upon<lb></lb>
the Canal, and thereupon He and this Dept. went<lb></lb>
upon the Ice on the Reservior, Say, that they all<lb></lb>
Skaited there about an hour, That the Deced, the<lb></lb>
Gentleman's Servant and this Dept. met upon the Ice<lb></lb>
and were standing together, when the Ice broke<lb></lb>
and the Deced and this Dept. fell into the Water<lb></lb>
Says that soon after Mr. Serle one of the Keepers<lb></lb>
come to the side of the Reserviour and threw in a<lb></lb>
Rope which Dept. got held of and by it was pulled<lb></lb>
out Says that he did not afterwards see the Deced<lb></lb>
in the Water but believes that he was there<lb></lb>
Drowned Accidentally by the breaking of the Ice.</p>
<p n="149"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n149-1">John Beardmore</rs>
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<p n="150">Sworn the Day Year &<lb></lb>
Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n150-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ44">Coroner</rs>
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