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<p n="809"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo874">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo875">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty fourth<lb></lb>
day of July 1782 at the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo876">St. Margaret within the Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon an Inquisition touching the death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n809-1">Edward Steele</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="810"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n810-1">William Blake</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo877">Sheerness</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65222_occ597">Laborer</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
his Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n810-2">Edward Steele</rs>
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the Deced<lb></lb>
was at Work as a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65222_occ598">Bricklayer</rs>
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at Sheerness<lb></lb>
That the Deced was taken ill last Saturday<lb></lb>
and appeared to be disordered in his Mind<lb></lb>
and that Dr. Smith ordered the Deced<lb></lb>
to be taken to Mr. Grove the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65222_occ599">Bricklayer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in order to be put into a Hospital<lb></lb>
Says that this Morning at four o'Clock<lb></lb>
the Deced came in a Boat from Sheerness<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n809-2">Saml. Wright</rs>
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, another Man and this<lb></lb>
Dept. come with the Deced Landed at<lb></lb>
Back wall, come in a Stage Coach from thence<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo878">Leaden hall Street</rs>
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and in a Hackney<lb></lb>
Coach afterwards, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
Spoke several times in the Coach, and<lb></lb>
the last time at Charring Cross, when the<lb></lb>
Deced's Colour Altered; and Deced appeared<lb></lb>
to be worse, Says that the Coach stopped at<lb></lb>
Mr. Grove's House in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo879">Mill Bank<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Street</rs>
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, That<lb></lb>
Saml. Wright carried a Letter to Mr. Grove in<lb></lb>
the house, and returned to the Coach on<lb></lb>
about five Minutes, and that the Deced.<lb></lb>
aspired in the Coach, in the same without speaking.<lb></lb>
and Says that he believes the Deced died a<lb></lb>
natural Death, and that he reced no hurt<lb></lb>
or violence from any Person to Dept. knowledge</p>
<p n="811">The Mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n811-1">William Blake</rs>
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