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<p n="173"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo162">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo163">Midsex</rs>
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Information taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65225_date27">Twenty fifth<lb></lb>
day of February 1785</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo164">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n173-1">Thomas Harland</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty &<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="174"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n174-1">John Underwood</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo165">North Row</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo166">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ92">Chandler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n174-2">Thomas Harland</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Deced has Lodged with Dept. upwards of three<lb></lb>
Months, That Mr. Bryan a Washerwoman<lb></lb>
came Yesterday for Deced's Linen to be<lb></lb>
washed and could not get into his Room<lb></lb>
that she came again bind called to Deced<lb></lb>
but had no Answer, upon which Dept. went up<lb></lb>
Stairs to Deced's Room Door, found it Locked<lb></lb>
and the Key in the Lock on the inside of<lb></lb>
the Door, That on looking under the Door<lb></lb>
Dept. saw the Deced's foot near the Floor<lb></lb>
in the Room, upon which Mr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ93">Weaver</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with an Iron Crow forced open the Door<lb></lb>
in Dept. presence and they went into<lb></lb>
the Room and saw the Deced Hanging<lb></lb>
by a Cord which was fastened to a Nail<lb></lb>
drove into a piece of Timber in the<lb></lb>
Room, and about his own Neck, Says<lb></lb>
that Mr. Weaver cut the Cord by which<lb></lb>
Deced was Hanging and laid him upon<lb></lb>
a Board, being Deced and Cold, and Dept<lb></lb>
believes that the Deced Hanged himself<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced appeared at times<lb></lb>
to be low Spirited of late and Dept. observed<lb></lb>
him to <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
so on Wednesday last</p>
<p n="175"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n175-1">John underwood</rs>
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