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<p n="1643"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1544">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1545">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses take<lb></lb>
this 13 day of August 1795<lb></lb>
at the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1643-1">John Woolbridge</rs>
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the Sign of<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1546">three Compasses</rs>
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Upper <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1547">Mount Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1548">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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one view of the<lb></lb>
Body <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1643-2">James Hobcroft</rs>
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then & there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1068">lying dead</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1643-3">George Cowling</rs>
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lodges at Mr Quinn in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1549">Swallow</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being sworn deposeth & saith that on Tuesday Evening last<lb></lb>
he met the Deced & they agreed to go into the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1550">Serpentine</rs>
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to bath they accordingly went in & the<lb></lb>
deced swam about a great deal & afterwards he<lb></lb>
across the River as he was returning back<lb></lb>
he hallowed out & went to the follow shore again<lb></lb>
but he went down again did not rise again<lb></lb>
this Dept Saith that he was never seen till<lb></lb>
Yesterday when he was taken out this<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
saith that nobody was near him bathing at the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
same time he has he doubt but that<lb></lb>
he was accidentally drowned<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="1644">Verdict<lb></lb>
accidentally drowne.</p>
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