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<p n="1220"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo841">Harefield</rs>
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the 8th. Day of March 1784 touching<lb></lb>
the Death of Ann the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1220-2">William Walker</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
then and there lying dead.</p>
<p n="1221"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1221-1">Joseph Branch</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo842">Harefield</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ283">Laborer</rs>
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last<lb></lb>
thursday night being the 6th. of for Instant about 9 oClock<lb></lb>
the Deceased came & asked him to get up with her that<lb></lb>
Night Saying if he came & set up with her, her Husband<lb></lb>
would not middle with her-the man Walker was in<lb></lb>
bed at home & She was fearful to go to bed to him<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n1221-2">Joseph Branch</rs>
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told her if she wd. Set up a little<lb></lb>
longer with him Branch-She replied he I have had<lb></lb>
but little but one time & I chuse to go to Bed<lb></lb>
the deceased asked her Husband if he was going to get up; he said no,<lb></lb>
he went to Bed & layed till Some time Some<lb></lb>
little time after She asked her Husband if he<lb></lb>
wanted the Chamber Pot he her Husband answered<lb></lb>
her No"They lay till for a Minute there was<lb></lb>
a Sudden Outery from where they lay If the Evidence<lb></lb>
Jumped up from the fire Place to the Stairs foot<lb></lb>
the Deceased & her Husband fell on the Witness as he<lb></lb>
was going up Stairs the Witness caught the Husband<lb></lb>
by one of his Arms one which the Husband Stamped on the Deceased having a Knife in his (the Husband<lb></lb>
right Hand-the Witness in trying to get it out of<lb></lb>
the Husband's Hand, cut his own fingerthe deceased<lb></lb>
got up & ran out of Doors immediately; as soon as She<lb></lb>
ran out the Witness went to get Assistance</p>
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