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<p n="711"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo672">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo673">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Eleventh<lb></lb>
day of May 1780 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo674">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo675">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upto<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
Andrew Dowley lying don't in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty of County.</p>
<p n="712"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n712-1">William Witcomb</rs>
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at Mr. Carpenters at<lb></lb>
<del>abery Farm</del>
her Real House's in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo676">Parish of St. George</rs>
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Hans.<lb></lb>
Square Barket maker on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n712-2">John Witcomb</rs>
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Depts. son aged about<lb></lb>
Eleven years was playing yesterday afternoon by<lb></lb>
the side of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo677">River near the Wooden<lb></lb>
Bridge</rs>
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at Chelsea in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo678">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo679">Hanover Square</rs>
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, That he came home<lb></lb>
and informed Dept. that he saw a Man's<lb></lb>
Hand in the River, upon which Dept. went<lb></lb>
and in the River there saw the Deced<lb></lb>
lying on one side, That he pulled the<lb></lb>
Deced to the Shore with the Assistance<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n712-3">James Anderson</rs>
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, the Deced being dead,<lb></lb>
and appeared to have been some time<lb></lb>
Drowned, but Dept. observed no Marks<lb></lb>
of violence upon the Deced, says that<lb></lb>
by the order of the Constable he assisted<lb></lb>
to carry the Deced to Mr. Jeffery's the sign<lb></lb>
of the Chelsea writer works says that he<lb></lb>
scarched the Deced's Pockett in the presence<lb></lb>
of several Neighbours and there formed<lb></lb>
two shillings & four pence three for things my Money<lb></lb>
That he likewise took the Deced's Shoe &<lb></lb>
Knee Bruckles and Stock Buckles.</p>
<p n="713">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n713-1">Willam Witcomb</rs>
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<p n="714"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n714-1">John Larcombe</rs>
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of Market lane in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo680">Parish of St. James</rs>
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Westmr. on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That he has Known Andrew Dowley the Deced<lb></lb>
some time, who was Housekeeper to the Opera</p>
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