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<p n="1284"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1285">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1286">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date257">Nineteenth day<lb></lb>
of September 1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1287">Parish of St. John the<lb></lb>
Evangelist</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1288">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County<lb></lb>
of Midsex, upon an Inquisition touching the death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1284-1">Edmund Smith</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1285"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1285-1">Thomas Hodges</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1289">Mill Bank</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1290">Parish of St. John<lb></lb>
the Evangelist</rs>
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Westmr. Cooper on his Oath saith That on<lb></lb>
Friday Morning last (Sepr. 16th.) he was at Mr. Simpcon<lb></lb>
the Sign of the Seven Stars in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1291">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
likewise <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1285-2">Edmund Smith</rs>
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the Deced, who agreed to<lb></lb>
go with Dept. home to buy some Box, and accordingly<lb></lb>
came with Dept. to his House on <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1292">Mill Bank,</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
Deced offered<del>three</del>
two shillings & six pence for the Box<lb></lb>
and Dept. would have three Shillings but his Wife<lb></lb>
said that Deced shod. have it, and some of the Box<lb></lb>
was taken up, put into a Bag, and carried by Dept.<lb></lb>
into his House, Says that Deced said to Dept. that his<lb></lb>
Wife was too good for him, and that he would give a<lb></lb>
Guinea for her to which Dept. agreed, and Deced gave<lb></lb>
Dept. one Shilling in part of payment Says that<lb></lb>
they drank three Pots of Beer at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1293">Sign of the<lb></lb>
Feathers</rs>
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, and afterwards some more Beer in<lb></lb>
Depts. Garden (how much Dept. cannot tell being much<lb></lb>
Intoxicated) Says that he then went to Bed it being<lb></lb>
about five o'Clock, and the Deced and Depts. Wife<lb></lb>
went to Mr. Aggott, Says that in the Night Dept.<lb></lb>
Wife and a Man (whom he believes to be a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ410">Sawyer</rs>
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)<lb></lb>
come into his House, and Depont. turned out his<lb></lb>
Wife, (the Man being gone out,) and she went into<lb></lb>
the Necessary House, and Dept. found her there the next<lb></lb>
Morning when he got up, Says that about five o'Clock<lb></lb>
he found the Deced in the Well in his Garden with<lb></lb>
his Head Downwards, upon which he went to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1294">Sign of the Feathers</rs>
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, and some People from thence went to see<lb></lb>
the</p>
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