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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo2903">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this<lb></lb>
12th. day of November 1792 at the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n2518-1">Joseph Copes</rs>
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known by the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo2904">Sign of the White</rs>
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House<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo2905">Swallow Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo2906">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
James Westminster</rs>
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on View of the<lb></lb>
Body of Banks Hodgkinson then<lb></lb>
and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ2375">lying dead</rs>
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<p n="2519"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n2519-1">Gehew Warren</rs>
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servant to the Deced <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n2519-2">Robert Banks Hodgkins</rs>
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being Sworn Saith that he has lived in that Capacity for near<lb></lb>
four year that for several years<obscured></obscured>
past the Deced has<del>had</del>
be<lb></lb>
afflicted with a<obscured></obscured>
Disease of Body, which this Deponent<lb></lb>
has understood was a disorder in the<del>Body</del>
Blader, that the excrusiating<lb></lb>
Pains caused by his Disorder has often in this Deponents<lb></lb>
Opinion damaged his Mind for the time white the Excess<lb></lb>
of the Pain lasted, That for the two last Months in<lb></lb>
particular the Deced has been very greatly afflicted, & form<lb></lb>
the Department of the Deced this Deponent is<obscured></obscured>
of<lb></lb>
Opinion that<obscured></obscured>
mind has been at time disordered in<lb></lb>
his Mind.<obscured></obscured>
about five O'Clock on Sunday morning last<lb></lb>
the 11 th Just he heard the Report of a Pistol where upon<lb></lb>
he immediatly get up Smith his <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ2376">Fellow Servant</rs>
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went<lb></lb>
into the Room of the Deced & found him apparently then<lb></lb>
quite dead, also Pistol lying by his side with which<lb></lb>
he had shot himself in the head. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n2519-4">John Warren</rs>
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