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of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1015">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty eighth<lb></lb>
day of July 1783 at Knightsbridge in the<lb></lb>
Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n887-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Bird</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="888"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n888-1">James Dunn</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1016">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ612">Chimney Sweeper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That Yesterday between Twelve<lb></lb>
and one o'Clock Dept. being at home was told<lb></lb>
by one of his Boys that a Man was Drowned<lb></lb>
in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park upon<lb></lb>
which he went into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1017">Hyde Park</rs>
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and being told<lb></lb>
that a Man was Drowned but not the Place That he was after<lb></lb>
some time informed where he lay in the River<lb></lb>
by a Person who had felt him, upon which<lb></lb>
he Dived and got hold of the Deced, of<lb></lb>
lay upon his face in the bottom, That he<lb></lb>
got him up to the Surface, and with to<lb></lb>
assistance of some Persons pulled the<lb></lb>
Deced to the Shore in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1018">St. Margaret Westminster</rs>
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being dead<lb></lb>
and Dept. was informed that the Deced had<lb></lb>
been in the River about Two Hours, Says<lb></lb>
that a Surgeon was fetched woho said<lb></lb>
that it was too late and that nothing could<lb></lb>
be done for the Deced.</p>
<p n="889">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n889-1">James Dunn</rs>
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</p>
<p n="890"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n890-1">Altham Corbett</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ613">Beadle</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1019">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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. on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
that yesterday about half past Twelve<lb></lb>
he was informed that a Man was Drowned<lb></lb>
in</p>
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