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<p n="1024"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1020">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1021">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="1025">Informations taken this Tenth<lb></lb>
day of June 1788 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1022">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Parish of St. Margaret within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1025-1">William Brunton</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="1026"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1026-1">John Hitch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ405">Victualler</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1023">Sign of<lb></lb>
Kings Head</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1024">Knightsbridge</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith That about Eight o'Clock <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1026-2">William<lb></lb>
Brunton</rs>
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the Deced come in to Dept. to made to Eat<lb></lb>
his Breakfast of Cold Veal which he Eat<lb></lb>
Excepting some fat which he said he could<lb></lb>
not Eat, and gave it to Dept. who took<lb></lb>
it away, leaving the Deced in the Room<lb></lb>
alone, Says that he returned to the Deced<lb></lb>
in about a Quarter of an hour and four<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Deced lying on his face on the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Speechless, Says that he spoke to the Deced<lb></lb>
but had no Answer, and Dept. thought that he Says<lb></lb>
that Mr. Williams the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ406">Apothecary</rs>
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was fetched<lb></lb>
who attempted to blood the Deced beet Deced<lb></lb>
did not bleed and Mr. Williams pronounced<lb></lb>
him dead, Says that he was in the lower<lb></lb>
part of the House and saw us Person go<lb></lb>
into the Room to Deced, and believes that<lb></lb>
no Person went there. Says that he called<lb></lb>
in Mr. Knight a Neighbour with saw the<lb></lb>
Deced.</p>
<p n="1027"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1027-1">John Hitch</rs>
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his Mark</p>
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