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<p n="137"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo123">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo124">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="138">Informations taken this Twenty<lb></lb>
seventh day of January 1781 at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo125">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo126">Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo127">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in<lb></lb>
the County of Midsex upon an Inquistn.<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n138-1">Henry<lb></lb>
Toppins</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="139"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n139-1">Henry Walker</rs>
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of Kinghtsbridge <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65221_occ37">Labourer</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
his Oath saith That on Monday last (Jany. 22d)<lb></lb>
Dept. was going for Grains to Mr. Stevens's<lb></lb>
Brewhouse, That he saw <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n139-2">Henry Toppins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Deced leading a<del>Blen</del>
Horse from Water in<lb></lb>
the Road at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo128">Brompton</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo129">Parish of<lb></lb>
Kensington</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo130">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That the Horse appeared to be in Spirits<lb></lb>
and was Dancing, That the Horse with his<lb></lb>
Near Hind Foot kicked the Deced upon<lb></lb>
his Head, Upon which the Boy fell down<lb></lb>
Says that he with another Man took<lb></lb>
the Deced up and carried him to the Sign<lb></lb>
of the Bell and Horns there Says that<lb></lb>
the Deced's Skull was fractured on the<lb></lb>
Right side of his Head, and the Deced was<lb></lb>
Speechless, and was soon after carried to<lb></lb>
<del>the Westmr</del>
St George's Hospital in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo131">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo132">Hanover Square</rs>
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, where he<lb></lb>
died yesterday as Dept. was informed<lb></lb>
and Dept. says that the Deced's death was<lb></lb>
merely Accidental.</p>
<p n="140">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me}</p>
<p n="141"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n141-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65221_occ38">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="142">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n142-1">Henry Walker</rs>
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