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Informations of Witness taken upon Oath this 9th. day
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in the said Parish and Liberty. Before
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Thomas Prickard
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His Majesty's Coroner for the said City and Liberty
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on View of the Body of a Woman unknown lying Dead
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in the said Parish and Liberty, as follows (to wit)
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one of
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the Constables of Hyde Park or his Oath saith that Yesterday about
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half an hour after 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon, he was informed there
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, and Deponent immediately went, and saw a woman floating
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in the Water,and then with the assistance of another Person
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he took her out and brought her on the Land. Deponent does
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Mary
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fields about 3 in the afternoon, and saw some People & elected
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together and among then a Young woman sitting on the crass, she
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second dejected a in a Melanchely State, and several woman
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