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<p n="1584"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2001">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2002">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
day of September 1791 at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2003">St. Paul Covent Garden</rs>
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within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1584-1">John Gibson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1564">lying dead</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1585"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1585-1">Margaret Hootton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1565">Servant</rs>
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to Mrs. Gibson<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2004">James Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2005">St. Paul Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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on her Oath saith That Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1585-3">John<lb></lb>
Gibson</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1566">Deced</rs>
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and Mrs. Gibson his Wife<lb></lb>
come home together last the Night about<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
half after Ten o'Clock the Deced appearing<lb></lb>
to be in Health Says that they<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
went up Stairs very soon after in order<lb></lb>
to go to Bed says that this Morning about<lb></lb>
Ten o'Clock Dept. was sweeping down the<lb></lb>
Stairs when she saw Blood running<lb></lb>
under the Deced. Bed chamber Door on the<lb></lb>
First Floor into the Passage loading to the<lb></lb>
Stairs Says that the opened the Bed<lb></lb>
Chamber Door and looking in saw the<lb></lb>
Deced lying in his Shirt upon the Floor<lb></lb>
by the Bed side, Saw Blood upon the<lb></lb>
Bed Cloaths and upon the Deced's Sheet<lb></lb>
the Deced appearing to be dead, Says<lb></lb>
that she saw a School Handle case Knife<lb></lb>
lying on the Floor near the Deced<lb></lb>
Bloody Says that she was frightened<lb></lb>
went down Stairs and acquainted<lb></lb>
Mr. Hawson the Surgeon therewith who<lb></lb>
went up<obscured></obscured>
Says that she<lb></lb>
heard Mr. Hawson say that the Deced<lb></lb>
had cut his Throat and Dept. believes<lb></lb>
that he did it with the Knife this Dept.<lb></lb>
saw Bloody, on the Floor, Says that the<lb></lb>
Deced has been at times very low Spirited for</p>
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