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<p n="118"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo135">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo136">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this First day<lb></lb>
of February 1783 at the Parish of St.<lb></lb>
Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo137">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the Death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n118-1">Elizabeth Ruskin</rs>
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being dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="119"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n119-1">William King</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo138">Union Street</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ53">Chandler</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n119-2">Elizabeth Ruskin</rs>
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the Deced has<lb></lb>
Lodged with Dept. almost three months last<lb></lb>
past, That Deced kept very much in her<lb></lb>
Room, but was down Stairs Deice or twice<lb></lb>
last Thursday Says that Yesterday the Deceds<lb></lb>
Sister came to Deced's Room and went away<lb></lb>
saying that she could not make her hear<lb></lb>
That she came again in the Evening and<lb></lb>
and went up Stairs with Mrs. Durham<lb></lb>
another Lodger and after calling some<lb></lb>
time and having no Answer Mrs. Durham<lb></lb>
came down to Dept. desiring him to come<lb></lb>
up Stairs to force often the Door, Says<lb></lb>
that he called Mr. Wilson a Neighbour<lb></lb>
and both went up together, and after<lb></lb>
calling at the Door and having no Answer<lb></lb>
Mr. Wilson with a Hatchett forced open<lb></lb>
the Room Door (which was Locked and the<lb></lb>
Key in the Lock on the inside of the Door,)<lb></lb>
Lays that on their going into the Room<lb></lb>
he saw the Deced hanging by a Cord<lb></lb>
which was fastened to an Iron Hook drow<lb></lb>
into<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a piece of Timber in<lb></lb>
the Wall and about her own Neck, Says<lb></lb>
that Mr. Nelson cut the Cord by which Deced<lb></lb>
was Hanging, and Deced was laid as<lb></lb>
Chair</p>
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