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<p n="1012"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations of Witness taken upon Oath this 9th. day<lb></lb>
of August 1776, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1095">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1096">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1097">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. at the Dwelling House of Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1012-1">Stephen Bowman</rs>
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the Sign of the Barley more in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1098">Mount<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the said Parish and Liberty. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1012-2">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ309">Gentleman</rs>
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His Majesty's Coroner for the said City and Liberty<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of a Woman unknown lying Dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish and Liberty, as follows (to wit)</p>
<p n="1013"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1013-1">Richard Blandy</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1099">New Street Covent Garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ310">Silk Dyer</rs>
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one of<lb></lb>
the Constables of Hyde Park or his Oath saith that Yesterday about<lb></lb>
half an hour after 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon, he was informed there<lb></lb>
was a Woman Drowned in the Place called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1100">the Bason</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1101">Hyde<lb></lb>
Park</rs>
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, and Deponent immediately went, and saw a woman floating<lb></lb>
in the Water,and then with the assistance of another Person<lb></lb>
he took her out and brought her on the Land. Deponent does<lb></lb>
not know who the woman was to the last of his Knowledge</p>
<p n="1014"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1014-1">Richard Blandy</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1015"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1015-1">William Hart</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1102">Mount Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1103">St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ311">Cooper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith that about a month since he was crossing <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1104">Mary<lb></lb>
bone</rs>
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fields about 3 in the afternoon, and saw some People & elected<lb></lb>
together and among then a Young woman sitting on the crass, she<lb></lb>
second dejected a in a Melanchely State, and several woman<lb></lb>
was</p>
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