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<p n="544"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo566">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo567">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date107">Twenty ninth<lb></lb>
day of March 1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo568">Parish of St. Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo569">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo570">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon and Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n544-1">Joseph Beck</rs>
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lying dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="545"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n545-1">James Beck</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo571">Hedge Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo572">St. Martins<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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Westmr. Baker on his Oath saith, that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n545-2">Joseph Beck</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Deced Father to this Dept. lived with him in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo573">Hedge<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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Aged Eighty two, Says that the Deced went out<lb></lb>
last Friday Morning (March 25.) about half hour after Ten<lb></lb>
o'Clock, Says that between two and three o'Clock<lb></lb>
that Afternoon and Man came to his House and said<lb></lb>
that the Deced was run over by one of the Queen's Light House<lb></lb>
Men, and was carried in a Coach to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo574">St. George's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and believed that Dept. would not see him alive<lb></lb>
Says that he went immediately to St. George Hospital<lb></lb>
where he found the Deced with a Wound on his<lb></lb>
Forehead, when the Deced told Dept. that the<lb></lb>
Queen's Light House men were riding along, there<lb></lb>
him down and rode over him, and that he endeavored<lb></lb>
to get out of their Way, Says that the Deced died<lb></lb>
in said Hospital yesterday Morning (March 28th.)<lb></lb>
and believes that his Death was occasioned by the<lb></lb>
hurt he then received.</p>
<p n="546"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n546-1">James Bick</rs>
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</p>
<p n="547"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n547-1">George Wheelright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ179">Porter</rs>
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to his Majesty at the<lb></lb>
Queen's House in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo575">St. James's Park</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That on Friday last about one o'Clock the Queen<lb></lb>
was going out Airing in a Coach, That a Party<lb></lb>
of the Kight Horse men were coming to attend her<lb></lb>
Majesty and were riding briskly along from<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo576">Green Park</rs>
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Says that the Deced was standing<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo577">St. James's Park</rs>
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near the Queen's House when<lb></lb>
the</p>
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