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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1393">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations of witnesses taken<lb></lb>
this 7 July 1797 at the House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1315-1">Philip Sutton</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1394">Sign of the Royal Exchange</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1395">Adams Mews</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1396">Mount Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1397">parish of St George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1315-2">John Rees</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1315-3">Wm. Bulkeley</rs>
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of the Bristol post Coach.<lb></lb>
being sworn saith that on<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Tuesday Eveng the 4 Inst. at 10<lb></lb>
Minutes past 5 as this Dept was going from the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1398">Saracens head</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1399">Friday Street</rs>
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the person who keeps the Tap told this Dept.<lb></lb>
there was in the Tap a passenger but that he was<lb></lb>
very ill. the porters mere bringing the Deced to the Coach<lb></lb>
they lifted him in (as he was not able to walk)<lb></lb>
this Dept. thought him in Appearance so bad<lb></lb>
that the said "why to you let him go he will not<lb></lb>
be alive at the Journeys End" when the Deced was<lb></lb>
put into the Coach the Dept drove the Coach to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1400">Bell Savage</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1401">Ludgate Inn</rs>
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where he took up a Gent.<lb></lb>
(no person being in the Coach before) the Deced never<lb></lb>
Spoke at this timefrom hence he drove to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1402">Bell in Inn</rs>
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& there took a Gentle woman<lb></lb>
& went immediately to the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1404">White Horn Cellar</rs>
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the Dept here got into the Coach & begged the Lady to get<lb></lb>
out of the Coach & he immediately said to the Gentleman<lb></lb>
the Decd. was dead the Gent. replied that he had never<lb></lb>
Spoken & only once lifted his hand. This Dept<lb></lb>
believes he died a natural Death: he was soon taken<lb></lb>
out of the Coach.</p>
<p n="1316"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1316-1">Wm Berkeley</rs>
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