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Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo909">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this<lb></lb>
Twenty ninth day of May 1788.<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo910">Parish of St. George</rs>
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Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo912">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of Ardler (Christian name unknown) lying dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="923"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n923-1">Michael Jones</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ358">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Moon<lb></lb>
Keeper of Hyde Park in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo913">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
George</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That this Morning about Seven o' Clock<lb></lb>
a Man came to Dept. saying that a Man<lb></lb>
was Drowned in the Serpentine River in<lb></lb>
Hyde Park, upon which Dept. got the Boat<lb></lb>
and Rowed to the Deced who was about<lb></lb>
fifteen Yards from the Shore and floating<lb></lb>
the Head being out of the Water Says that<lb></lb>
he took hold of the Deced's Collar, his<lb></lb>
Cloaths being on and pulled him to the<lb></lb>
Shore in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo915">Parish of St. George</rs>
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Square</rs>
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, the Deced being deced and appeared<lb></lb>
to have been some days in the Water<lb></lb>
but Depont observed no Marks of violence<lb></lb>
whatever upon the Deced, Says that<lb></lb>
he sent a Person to acquaint Mr. Storey<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ359">Undertaker</rs>
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who sent some Men<lb></lb>
to carry the Body away, and Dept. saw<lb></lb>
the Body afterwards in Mr Story's House<lb></lb>
Says that he found four Duplicates in<lb></lb>
Deced's Pockets, and went to inquire<lb></lb>
about him, and two Men come to see the<lb></lb>
Body at Mr Storey's Said they knew him<lb></lb>
and that his name was Ardler,</p>
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<p n="925">Sworn the Day Year &<lb></lb>
Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n925-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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