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<p n="366"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo448">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo449">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65226_date47">Ninth<lb></lb>
day of February 1786</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo450">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo451">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon on Inquisition touching the death<lb></lb>
of William Livers lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="367"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n367-1">John Cunningham</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ324">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Prigs<lb></lb>
a Coal Merchant in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo452">Scotland Yard</rs>
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, on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith, That Yesterday between the hour<lb></lb>
of four and five in the Afternoon Dept. was<lb></lb>
going with his Master's Horses to Wash their<lb></lb>
in the Thomas at the bottom of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo453">Scotland<lb></lb>
Yard</rs>
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when he saw<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n367-901">William Sever</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Deced in the Thames lying upon his face<lb></lb>
at the inside of a Barge there in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo454">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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, Says that<lb></lb>
he called his Fellows Servants who went<lb></lb>
with him to the Deced and carried him<lb></lb>
upon a Ladder to the Share the Deced<lb></lb>
being dead and appearing to have been<lb></lb>
some time Drowned, but Dept. observed<lb></lb>
no Marks of violence upon the Deced.</p>
<p n="368"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n368-1">John Cunningham</rs>
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</p>
<p n="369"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n369-1">William Simms</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo455">Isleworth</rs>
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in the Court<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo456">Midsex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ325">Waterman</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That on Monday Night last (February the<lb></lb>
Sixth) Dept. was at Hungerford with his<lb></lb>
Boat, That William Severs the Deced was<lb></lb>
likewise with a Lug Boat with Staves in<lb></lb>
it, That the Deced was on Shore that Night<lb></lb>
and Dept. slept in his own Boat, upon the Wa<obscured></obscured>
Says that<lb></lb>
about half past five o'Clock on Tuesday<lb></lb>
Morning the Seventh Instant the Deced and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n369-2">Richard Love</rs>
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Dept. Servant come down toward<lb></lb>
the Boat and Love went into Dept. Boat<lb></lb>
and they both Rowed the Boat up the River<lb></lb>
immediately, and Deced went towards his<lb></lb>
own</p>
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