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<p n="161"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo200">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo201">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="162">Informations taken this fifth<lb></lb>
day of February 1780 at the Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n162-1">John Fling</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="163"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n163-1">Archdall Harris</rs>
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of New <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo202">Palace Yard</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo203">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65220_occ61">Surgeon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That he this day Examined the<lb></lb>
Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n163-2">John Fling</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo204">St. Margarets Work house</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and found on his left Temple near his Eye<lb></lb>
a Triangular Wound which left the Bore bare<lb></lb>
which he apprehands might be reced by a<lb></lb>
fall, finding no other Marks of violence<lb></lb>
upon the Deced,</p>
<p n="164">Harris</p>
<p n="165"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n165-1">James Pearce</rs>
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of Vine Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo205">Lambeth March</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65220_occ62">Carpenter</rs>
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on his Oath saith That on Monday<lb></lb>
Night last (January 31.) Dept. spent the<lb></lb>
Evening with his fellow Workmen at<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo206">Queen's Head</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo207">Marsham Street Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
That they were going home between two<lb></lb>
and three o'Clock on Tuesday Morning<lb></lb>
at the End of Westmr. Bridge when he<lb></lb>
heard a Man in the Water call out<lb></lb>
Hollo, twice, Says that he turned back<lb></lb>
and in a few Minutes got a Watchman<lb></lb>
with a Candle and Laulhorn to go with<lb></lb>
him, towards the Deced, Says that he went<lb></lb>
down the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo208">Stone Stairs</rs>
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on the upper side of<lb></lb>
Westmr. Bridge, and on the Stairs found<lb></lb>
a Hat and a stick, That when he got<lb></lb>
to the side of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo209">River Thames</rs>
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, he heard<lb></lb>
the Deced say, her I am twice, the Deced<lb></lb>
being</p>
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