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<p n="817"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo889">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo890">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Eight<lb></lb>
day of May 1784 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo891">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo892">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n817-1">William Thomas Simes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
an Infant lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="818"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n818-1">William Simpson</rs>
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<del>of</del>
at the White House Lodging <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo893">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo894">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George Hanover Squar</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith That Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n818-2">Mary Symes</rs>
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Mother<lb></lb>
to William Thomas Symes the Deced (an Infant)<lb></lb>
of three Years old and upwards, lives in<lb></lb>
the same House with Dept. Says that on<lb></lb>
<del>Wednesday</del>
Thursday Evening last the Sixth Instant<lb></lb>
Dept. was coming out of his Garden there<lb></lb>
and saw Mrs. Symes looking for the Deced<lb></lb>
and ordering the other Children to call<lb></lb>
the Deced. in, Says that he found the<lb></lb>
Deced Drowned in the Mote near the<lb></lb>
Door and believes that the Deced<lb></lb>
Accidentally fell into the Water, and was<lb></lb>
Drowned and Dept. with a Rake got Deced out. Says that he was informed<lb></lb>
by Mrs. Symes and the Servant that the<lb></lb>
Deced had not been gone out of the House<lb></lb>
above half an hour. Says that he saw<lb></lb>
the Deced's Hat floating upon the<lb></lb>
Water.</p>
<p n="819"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n819-1">Wm. Simpson</rs>
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<p n="820">Sworn the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place above mentioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n820-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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