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<p n="1047"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1178">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1179">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="1048">Infromations taken this Twenty sixth<lb></lb>
day of August 1778 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1180">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon on Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1048-1">William Grant</rs>
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lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1049"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1049-1">Andrew Shaw</rs>
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at Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1049-2">Jane Mackey</rs>
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of Peter<lb></lb>
Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1181">Parish of St. James</rs>
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Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ327">Soap Boiler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That he has assisted Mrs. Mackey<lb></lb>
in the Business some time, and that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1049-4">William<lb></lb>
Grant</rs>
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the Deced was Servant to Mrs. Mackey<lb></lb>
and constantly attended the Copper & Vatts, Says<lb></lb>
that yesterday a little after four o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon Deced and this Dept. were by the<lb></lb>
Copper, which was Boiling, That the Deced<lb></lb>
went to a Publick House and drank a Glass<lb></lb>
of Beer and returned in about six or seven<lb></lb>
Minutes, when Dept. gave him the Shove<lb></lb>
the Copper being then Boiling, and went out<lb></lb>
to Mr. Young's Door opposite to Mrs. Mackeys;<lb></lb>
Says that in three or four Minutes he saw<lb></lb>
Mr. Aldwyn an Officer of Excise coming to<lb></lb>
Mrs. Mackey's Door, and Dept. following him<lb></lb>
into the House, Mr. Aldwyn very soon called<lb></lb>
out that the Copper was Boiling over, and<lb></lb>
Dept. immediately saw it Boil over but<lb></lb>
could not see the Deced or the Shovel Says that he called<lb></lb>
William Several times and having no Answer<lb></lb>
the Dept. enquired about the Neighbourhood<lb></lb>
and could not hear of Deced, upon which<lb></lb>
Dept. suspected that he was fallen into the Copper<lb></lb>
and borrowed a large Hook from Mr. Frenck<lb></lb>
and the Deced was drawn with it out<lb></lb>
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