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Informations of Witnesses severally taken and<lb></lb>
acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1070-1">Patrick Burgess</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1070-2">Benjamin Austin</rs>
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known by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1071">Sign of the the London Hospital</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1072">Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise Whitechappel</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1073">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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on Saturday the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date176">twelfthDay of August</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King<lb></lb>
George the Third before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1070-5">William Wilson</rs>
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one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Coroners for the said County on an Inquisition<lb></lb>
then and there taken on View of the Body of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1070-6">Patrick Burgess</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead as follow: to wit</p>
<p n="1071"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1071-1">William Islip</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ445">Labourers</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1074">the Mint</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1075">the<lb></lb>
Tower of London</rs>
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living at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1076">No. 41</rs>
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Upon<lb></lb>
his Oath Saith That about eight o'Clock in the Evening<lb></lb>
of Wednesday last he was coming from <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1078">Lime house</rs>
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across<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1079">Stepney fields</rs>
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to London a Woman and Child being with him and in the path way near the<lb></lb>
Rope ground met the deceased who came up to him and<lb></lb>
begged he would not go any further as he the deceased was<lb></lb>
Shot and immediately laid hold of Deponent by the Arm<lb></lb>
and he walked back with the deceased to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1080">Gner Drager<lb></lb>
Public House</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1081">Stepney</rs>
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being the nearest House, as they<lb></lb>
were returning to the House they met Ms. Hughes or<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ446">Butcher</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1082">Aldgate</rs>
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and a Ms. Barber Deponent<lb></lb>
immediately said to them you mind go back again<lb></lb>
with me this Man (meaning the deceased) is Shot<lb></lb>
the deceased then appeared very faint and all of them<lb></lb>
went into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1083">Green Dragon</rs>
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. The Landlord of which<lb></lb>
immediately sent for a Coach to take the deceased to<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1084">London Hospital</rs>
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. The Coach being brought Messrs.</p>
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