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<p n="483"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo511">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo512">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date97">Ninth day of<lb></lb>
March 1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo513">Parish of St. George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo514">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n483-1">David Miller</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="484"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n484-1">William Hooper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo515">Brompton Park House</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo516">Parish of Kensington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ157">Gardener</rs>
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on his Oath saith. That on Friday<lb></lb>
Morning Last (as Dept. believes) he was going along<lb></lb>
a Field adjoining to Hogmoor Lane in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo517">Parish<lb></lb>
of Kensington</rs>
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with <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n484-2">Richard King</rs>
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and Mr. Brown<lb></lb>
Nursery Men, when Mr. King called out here<lb></lb>
is a Man has out his Throat, (having first taken of<lb></lb>
some Hay and Straw with which the Deced was<lb></lb>
covered) at the Bottom at a Hayrick Says that he<lb></lb>
looked at the Deced and saw him Bleeding from<lb></lb>
his Neck, as he lay down on his right side, says<lb></lb>
that Mr. Brown come back and said it was<lb></lb>
David, That the Deced was very pale ratled in the Throat and wished<lb></lb>
to be taken to the Hospital, Says that Mr. Williamson<lb></lb>
was acquainted there with who sent to the Parish<lb></lb>
Officers, and Deced was carried to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo518">St. George's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the same Morning, Says that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n484-3">William Harran</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Depts. Fellow Servant the same Morning Shewed Dept. a Penknife<lb></lb>
Bloody which he said he found in the Hay, where<lb></lb>
dept. found the Deced, and sd. Harran afterwards<lb></lb>
told Dept. that he had given it to Deced's Wife, says<lb></lb>
that he has known the Deced above Twelve months<lb></lb>
and has heard that the Deced within the last three<lb></lb>
weeks has more than once attempted to make away<lb></lb>
with himself.</p>
<p n="485"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n485-1">William Hooper</rs>
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