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<p n="2174"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo2067">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo2068">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Seventh<lb></lb>
day of November 1789 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo2069">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. James</rs>
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with in the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n2174-1">Henry Smith</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="2175"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n2175-1">Jane Robinson</rs>
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a Lodger to Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n2175-2">Catherine Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo2070">Portland Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo2071">Parish of St. James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Westmr on her Oath saith That she has known<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65229_occ724">Deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n2175-3">Henry Smith</rs>
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about Nine Years<lb></lb>
and that he some times Sept a Month with Dept.<lb></lb>
That he slept with her on Thursday Night<lb></lb>
last and went away Yesterday Morning<lb></lb>
about Ten o'Clock when the Deced appeared<lb></lb>
low Sprited and said That perhaps he might<lb></lb>
come again at Night says that about Nine<lb></lb>
o'Clock last Night some Prison knocked at<lb></lb>
the Street<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
one of the Maids of and<lb></lb>
the Door and Deced came of the Maids into <lb></lb>
the Deer to ur where Dept lodged, and said<lb></lb>
give one a Night I Want to go Jackward<lb></lb>
upon which Dept gave Deced a Lighted Candle<lb></lb>
and he went into the Yard says that she<lb></lb>
staird in the Parlin about a Quarter of are<lb></lb>
hour, and the Deced not returning, this<lb></lb>
Dept. went into the Yard to if he was in<lb></lb>
the Privy, and saw some thing lye upon<lb></lb>
the Ground before th Privy Door, upon which<lb></lb>
she returned into the Parlour and acquianted<lb></lb>
the two Woman therewith that were there<lb></lb>
says that they were frightned and would not<lb></lb>
go by themselves to the Deced and that one<lb></lb>
of them went out and brought two Man<lb></lb>
who went to the Deced and returned<lb></lb>
immediately and several of Mr. Justice<lb></lb>
Read's Men were fatch who went to<lb></lb>
the Deced and a Surgeon was likewise fetched, who said</p>
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