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of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this 22d day<lb></lb>
of April 1797 in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo870">Parish of St. Martin in the<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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at the Dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n837-1">John<lb></lb>
Callington</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo871">Sign of St. Lukes Head</rs>
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his Majesty's<lb></lb>
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for the said City and Liberty touching the<lb></lb>
Death ofthen and there<lb></lb>
lying dead as follow to wit</p>
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being sworn deposeth that, about half<lb></lb>
an hour after ten o'Clock Yesterday in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
this Deponent came into the Tap Room belonging to the<lb></lb>
above Public house called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo877">St. Lukes Head</rs>
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in order to<lb></lb>
do a Job there where he found the deceased who shook<lb></lb>
him by the hand and asked him how he did and treated<lb></lb>
this Deponent with a Pint of Beer at which<lb></lb>
him the deceased appeared to be quite sober and<lb></lb>
be drank a little of the Beer and told this Deponent<lb></lb>
that he was the Youngest of all his<obscured></obscured>
Brothers<lb></lb>
and who took no care of his Father such that he had always taken Care that his Father<lb></lb>
should never want any thing and was sure that God<lb></lb>
would never let him want,that all this <del>Fathers</del>
<lb></lb>
<del>Children</del>
said Brothers were gone (that is dead) and then added<lb></lb>
and I am going and he immediately fell back<lb></lb>
upon the Table and from thence on the Floor and<lb></lb>
instantly died</p>
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