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<p n="201"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo255">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo256">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Fifth day of<lb></lb>
March 1778 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo257">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo258">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n201-1">John Simpson</rs>
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lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="202"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n202-1">David Smith</rs>
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of Shiffield Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo259">Clare Market</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Carpenter on his Oath says, That he was at<lb></lb>
work yesterday at the Shop of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n202-2">Edward Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ56">Carpenter</rs>
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in Yeates's Court in the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo260">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n202-3">John Simpson</rs>
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the Deced a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ57">Carpenter</rs>
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was at work<lb></lb>
in the same Shop, at a different Bench,<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced was working upon a<lb></lb>
Drawer and cutting with a small Chissell towards his<lb></lb>
Body, That the Deced turned around to Depots<lb></lb>
clapped his Hand upon his Breast, saying,<lb></lb>
God bless me, I have killed myself, and walk<lb></lb>
to Dept. upon which Dept. opened the Deced<lb></lb>
Waistcoat, and then saw a Wound in Deced's<lb></lb>
Breast on the leftside, which bled, Says<lb></lb>
that he feast his Handkerchief to the wound<lb></lb>
in order to stop the Blood, and Deced said<lb></lb>
I am Sick, I am Sick, Sunk down and<lb></lb>
fainted away, upon which Dept. went to<lb></lb>
acquaint Mr. Squrres there with who sent for<lb></lb>
a Surgeon, who came verysoon, and on<lb></lb>
his feeling the Deced's Pulse, said he feared<lb></lb>
that he was dead, as he had no Pulse, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced was moved to the Sign of the<lb></lb>
Taylor's Arms in Clements Lane and died<lb></lb>
immediately, and Dept. believes that the Deced<lb></lb>
accidentally gave himself the wound in the Breast<lb></lb>
with the Chisset, which coved his Death, Says that<lb></lb>
the</p>
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