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Westmr</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1048">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty second<lb></lb>
day of May 1784 at Knightsbridge<lb></lb>
in the Parish of St. Margaret within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1049">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n965-2">James Walker</rs>
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lying dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="966"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n966-1">John Day</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1050">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ633">Labour</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith, That Yesterday about Seven o'Clock<lb></lb>
in the Afternoon Dept. was standing upon Queen<lb></lb>
Ann's Bridge in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1051">Hyde Park</rs>
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when he saw<lb></lb>
the Deced in the Serpentine River in Hyde<lb></lb>
Park, coming up with his Head above water near the Sh<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Sunk again immediately, and did<lb></lb>
not rise afterwards, Says that Mr. Dun<lb></lb>
and a Black Man Dived<obscured></obscured>
could not<lb></lb>
bring up the Deced, That Mr. Bever than<lb></lb>
Dived and brought up the Deced, and<lb></lb>
Got him to the in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1052">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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., That he appeared<lb></lb>
to be Dead, having been in the Water<lb></lb>
near an hour. Says that he did not<lb></lb>
see the Deced go into the Water, That he<lb></lb>
was naked and had left this Cloaths on the Shore</p>
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