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<p n="424"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo446">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo447">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this<lb></lb>
Seventh day of February 1784 at<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo448">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo449">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n424-1">Thomas Boyce</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="425"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n425-1">Susannah Minton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ277">House Maid</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n425-2">Hugh Valence<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo450">St. Alban Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo451">Parish of St. James<lb></lb>
Westmr.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ278">Esqr</rs>
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. on her Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n425-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Boyce</rs>
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the Deced was footman to Mr. Jones<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced on Wednesday last<lb></lb>
stayed up Stairs in the Afternoon, in his<lb></lb>
Room Says that on Thursday Morning last<lb></lb>
(5 February) about Eight o'Clock Dept. Saw<lb></lb>
Deced in the Kitchen, where he staid a<lb></lb>
few Minutes only and went up Stairs<lb></lb>
again, Says that she went up to Deced<lb></lb>
two or three times that day, when Deced<lb></lb>
was in Bad and complained of his Head<lb></lb>
and Breast Says that between two & three<lb></lb>
o'Clock that Afternoon, Dept. went up Stairs<lb></lb>
to make the Bed when she found the Deced<lb></lb>
lying upon the Floor by the Bed side, who<lb></lb>
lifted up<del>his</del>
His Hand, and desired Dept.<lb></lb>
to help him, Says that the Room Smelt of<lb></lb>
Gunpowder and was full of smoak Says<lb></lb>
that she was frightened and went down to<lb></lb>
call <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n425-4">Jane Musgrove</rs>
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her Fellow <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ279">Servant</rs>
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& the Footman<lb></lb>
Says that they than saw a great deal of<lb></lb>
Blood upon the Floor where Deced lay, which<lb></lb>
came from his Head, and Dept. afterwards<lb></lb>
saw a Wound in Deced's Head on the Right<lb></lb>
side, Says that they lifted Deced upon the<lb></lb>
Bed</p>
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