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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses severally<lb></lb>
taken and acknowledge on the Behalf of<lb></lb>
our Sovereign Lord the King touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2776-1">Duncan Robertson</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2958">the Sign<lb></lb>
of the Weavers arms</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2959">Bakers row</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2960">Saint Mary Matfellon<lb></lb>
otherwise Whitechapel</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2961">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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on the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date478">twenty fourth day of<lb></lb>
November</rs>
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in the twenty seventh year of<lb></lb>
the reign of our sovereign Lord George the<lb></lb>
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain<lb></lb>
France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
faith and so forth before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2776-3">Edward<lb></lb>
Walter</rs>
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one of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1153">Coroners</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the said County on an Inquisition<lb></lb>
then and there taken on View of the<lb></lb>
<del>said</del>
Body of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2776-4">Duncan Robertson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there lying dead as follows</p>
<p n="2777"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n2777-1">Abraham Silk</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1154">Chandler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being sworn and examined the Day and Year and at<lb></lb>
the place above mentioned upon his Oath saith That<lb></lb>
on Thursday the sixteenth day of November instant<lb></lb>
between the Hours of six and seven in the Evening<lb></lb>
as he was coming out of his House in Smarts<lb></lb>
Buildings aforesaid three Men came Down the<lb></lb>
Buildings one of whom was in a striped short<lb></lb>
Jackett and upon their coming nearly opposite<lb></lb>
Deponent House the Person in the Dress above<lb></lb>
described stopt and looking back as if apprehensive<lb></lb>
some person was following him said ''Blast or<lb></lb>
Bougre his Eyes served him right'' That upon<lb></lb>
coming up the Buildings near to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo2963">Holborn</rs>
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saw<lb></lb>
two men one with a Candle looking as they<lb></lb>
informed Deponent for a Hat which they<lb></lb>
afterwards found at the Back Door of<lb></lb>
Corner House in Holborn being a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ1155">Patten maker</rs>
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