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<p n="1518"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1856">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1857">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65227_date257">twenty<lb></lb>
Seventh day of November 1787</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Parish of St. Margaret within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1858">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1518-1">Thomas Spiers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="1519"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1519-887">Thomas Mac Cullogh</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1859">Charles Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1860">Strand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ1248">Labourer</rs>
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on his Oath saith That he this Dept.<lb></lb>
was Yesterday between One and Two o'Clock<lb></lb>
upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1861">River Thames</rs>
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near Scotland Yard<lb></lb>
when <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1519-1">William Roots</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1519-2">Edward Root</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1519-889">William Gern</rs>
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called to Dept. saying that<lb></lb>
a Person was Drowned in the Canal in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1862">St. James's Park</rs>
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, and desiring Dept. to lend<lb></lb>
them his Skiff to try to Same him out<lb></lb>
Says that they all assisted to bring the<lb></lb>
Skiff <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1863">into the Park</rs>
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, Says that he saw a<lb></lb>
Hole in the Ice near the Middle of the<lb></lb>
Canal and was told that the Deced had<lb></lb>
fallen in there, upon which the Skiff was<lb></lb>
put into the Water there and he went into<lb></lb>
it, Says that in about five Minutes<lb></lb>
Dept. with his Hetcher got hold of the<lb></lb>
Deced's Cloaths and Rulled him out of<lb></lb>
the Water and got him to the Shore<lb></lb>
appearing to Dept. to be dead Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced was carried by <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1519-3">George<lb></lb>
Richardson</rs>
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to the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1864">Robin Hood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1865">Duke Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1866">Parish of St. Margt.<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. where Mr. Hanbury Surgeon and<lb></lb>
Apothecary endeavoured for about half<lb></lb>
an hour to restore the Deced to Life but<lb></lb>
in vain, the Deced being dead this Dept.<lb></lb>
being present and assisting the whole time</p>
<p n="1520"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1520-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
MacCullogh</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his Mark</p>
<p n="1521">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n1521-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ1249">Coroner</rs>
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