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<p n="1505"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1661">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1662">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Thirtieth day<lb></lb>
of December 1778 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1663">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1664">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon on Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1505-1">Thomas Whittle</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1506"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1506-1">Thomas Layborn</rs>
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a Lodger at Mrs. Lawyp in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Carnaby Neat in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1665">Parish of St. James</rs>
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Westrmr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ474">Stone Mason</rs>
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on his Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1506-3">Thomas Whittle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for Deced lodged in the two pair of stairs aforesaid<lb></lb>
in the said House and every with this Dept.<lb></lb>
Says that on Sunday Night last Decr, 21) believes<lb></lb>
Ten & Eleven o'Clock Dept. being in Bed, heard the<lb></lb>
Deced come up Stairs and open his Room Door<lb></lb>
and afterwards in his Room Says that he heard<lb></lb>
about Eleven o'Clock some Rumbling in Deced<lb></lb>
Boom which he thought was the Deced putting his<lb></lb>
Cloaths into a Crest but Dept. heard no Person<lb></lb>
in the Room with Deced and Says that he<lb></lb>
heard the Deced Lock the Room Door when he<lb></lb>
first went in Says that he heard nothing<lb></lb>
were of the Deced until Monday Evening between<lb></lb>
six & Seven o'Clock when he Deced<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
came up stairs and knocked several times at<lb></lb>
Deced's Room Door, the Deced saying Sometime<lb></lb>
but Deced could not tell what it was Says that<lb></lb>
the taker woman fetched up Mrs. Lowry who<lb></lb>
called several times and at last insisted upon<lb></lb>
from open the Door, when the Deced said<lb></lb>
that he would open the Door which he did, the<lb></lb>
Door being locked and the Key in the Lock on<lb></lb>
the Made of the Door, Says that he saw the Deced<lb></lb>
then Sitting on the side of the Bed in his Shirt<lb></lb>
which was very Bloody, Says that in a few<lb></lb>
Minutes and the Man came there and Dept.<lb></lb>
went into the Room, Says that seeing the<lb></lb>
Deced Bloody Dept. asked him where the was Wound<lb></lb>
and</p>
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