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<p n="1166"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1507">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of Midsex</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Ninth day of<lb></lb>
august 1791 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1508">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1509">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1510">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1166-1">John Mc Donald</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1160">lying dead</rs>
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in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County</p>
<p n="1167"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1167-1">Richard Basson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1161">Apprentice</rs>
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Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1167-2">Thomas Bettesmoor</rs>
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of of alley <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1162">Waterman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That on Sunday Evening<lb></lb>
last Aust. 7th about Ten o'Clock Dept was in his Boat<lb></lb>
upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1511">River Thames</rs>
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upon Mill<lb></lb>
Mcurk, when he saw the Deced<lb></lb>
in the River driving down with the tide<lb></lb>
Says that he got hold of the Deced's<lb></lb>
Cloaths and endeavoured to pull him<lb></lb>
to the Shore but was not able, and<lb></lb>
therefore dragged the Deced to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1512">Hungerford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where he was put ashore and the<lb></lb>
Beadles fetched a that in which the<lb></lb>
Deced was desired to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1513">St. Martins</rs>
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Ban<obscured></obscured>
house<lb></lb>
Says that he appeared to have been<lb></lb>
some days in the Water, but Dept.<lb></lb>
observed no Marks of violence upon<lb></lb>
the Deced.</p>
<p n="1168"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1168-1">Richard Bosun</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1169"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1169-1">Joseph Holman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1514">Hungerford</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1163">Water<lb></lb>
man</rs>
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on his oath saith, that on<lb></lb>
Sunday Evening last <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1169-2">Richard Basson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and another brought the Deced to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1515">Hungerford</rs>
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and Dept. helped to carry<lb></lb>
him to the Shore in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1516">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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, Says that<lb></lb>
he appeared to have been in the<lb></lb>
water some days Says that he</p>
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