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<p n="78"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo77">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo78">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Sixth<lb></lb>
day of January 1789 at the Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n78-1">George Mathews</rs>
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lying dead in<lb></lb>
the said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="79"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n79-3">Walter Crop</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo79">Angel Court</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Margaret Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65229_occ22">Taylor</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n79-1">George Mathews</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65229_occ23">Deced</rs>
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has Lodge about<lb></lb>
six Weeks with Dept. That on<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Sunday last<lb></lb>
the Third Instant this Dept. Daughter <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n79-2">Mary Ann<lb></lb>
Cross</rs>
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aged about Twelve Years went up Stairs to<lb></lb>
make the Deced's Bed on the Second Floor and<lb></lb>
immediately came down again saying that<lb></lb>
she Saw a Man's Lag in the Carrier of the<lb></lb>
Room upon which Dept. went up Stairs and<lb></lb>
saw the Deced Hanging by a Cord fastened<lb></lb>
to an Iron Staple in one of the Wooden<lb></lb>
Joysts in the Certing of the Room and about<lb></lb>
his Neck, Says that he fetched a Soldier who<lb></lb>
lifted the Deced up which Dept. out the Cord<lb></lb>
and Deced was laid down upon the Deced<lb></lb>
being dead and quite Cold, and Dept.<lb></lb>
believes that the Deced Hanged himself<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced was a very quiet<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Fensive Man, but has of lote been much<lb></lb>
addeted to Drinking and was in a low Way</p>
<p n="80"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n80-1">Walter Cross</rs>
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<p n="81"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n81-1">William Clapp</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. Cross's at Mr. <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo80">Cross's in Angel<lb></lb>
Court</rs>
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on his Oath saith, That he usually slept<lb></lb>
with the Deced, That the Deced did not sleep<lb></lb>
at<obscured></obscured>
Saturday Night last but came hour<lb></lb>
about Eight o'Clock on Sunday Morning and went<lb></lb>
into</p>
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