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Informations of Witnesses severally taken and
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on Saturday the
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twelfthDay of August
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in the
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Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King
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George the Third before me
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Majesty's Coroners for the said County on an Inquisition
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then and there lying
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his Oath Saith That about eight o'Clock in the Evening
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of Wednesday last he was coming from
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to London a Woman and Child being with him and in the path way near the
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Rope ground met the deceased who came up to him and
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begged he would not go any further as he the deceased was
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Shot and immediately laid hold of Deponent by the Arm
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being the nearest House, as they
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were returning to the House they met Ms. Hughes or
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Butcher
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Aldgate
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and a Ms. Barber Deponent
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immediately said to them you mind go back again
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with me this Man (meaning the deceased) is Shot
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the deceased then appeared very faint and all of them
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went into the
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. The Landlord of which
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the
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. The Coach being brought Messrs.
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