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<p n="358"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n358-1">Henry Wilmot</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo207">Tottenham High Cross</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo208">Parish of Tottenham</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo209">Middx</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ77">Farmer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath and saith that on Wednesday the 22d.<lb></lb>
day of June last Dept. being on Horse back he saw the<lb></lb>
deced and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n358-2">John Cotton</rs>
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together at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo210">Crouch End</rs>
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aforesd.<lb></lb>
and there saw the deced lay hold of sd. Cotton by the<lb></lb>
Collar and the deced appearing to be stronger then<lb></lb>
sd. Cotton he shoved sd. Cotton across a Ditch there;<lb></lb>
and the deced having hold of sd. Cotton's Collar at the<lb></lb>
same time Cotton Struck the deced<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Edge of a Bricklayers Hammer<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
which he had<lb></lb>
in his Hand with the Chissell Edge of the sd.<lb></lb>
Hammer with great force upon the left side of the<lb></lb>
Head, on which a Scuffle in said, between the deced<lb></lb>
and Cotton, and they both soon fall<del>down</del>
to the Ground<lb></lb>
the deced being undermost; that<del>they both got</del>
before<lb></lb>
they fall Dept. observed that Cotton attempted to strike<lb></lb>
the deced, with his Fist where he had before struck<lb></lb>
him with the Hammer and did strike the deced.<lb></lb>
in that place or near it Cotton's Fist being very<lb></lb>
bloody that Dept. heard the deced say will not<obscured></obscured>
lay<lb></lb>
hold of him, meaning sd. Cotton; says he Dept. then<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
the deced since<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
this day when Dept. saw the deced dead in Saint<lb></lb>
Bartholomew's Hospital.</p>
<p n="359">Sworn the 11th. day of July 1774<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="360"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n360-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ78">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="361"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n361-1">Henr: Willmot</rs>
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</p>
<p n="362">July 1774</p>
<p n="363"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n363-1">William King</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo211">Crouch End</rs>
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aforesd. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ79">Farrier</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath and saith that standing near this Depts. own House<lb></lb>
he saw sd. Cotton and the deced walking together the deced<lb></lb>
having hold of Cotton's Collar, and when they advanced near<lb></lb>
to Dept. and Mr. Wilmot, the deced asked Cotton for 13½<lb></lb>
which Cotton<obscured></obscured>
the deced on wch Cotton said he wod.<lb></lb>
not pay the deced, whereupon a Scuffle moved between<lb></lb>
Cotton and the deced. and<del>Cotton push</del>
the deced Pushed Cotton<lb></lb>
agt. Depts. Hedge both having hold of each others Collars and<lb></lb>
then sd. Cotton struck the deced with great Violence with<lb></lb>
the Chissell End of an Hammer which Cotton then had in<lb></lb>
his hand, that a Scuffle then in said between the deced and<lb></lb>
Cotton and Cotton then struck the deced with his Fist upon<lb></lb>
or near the Place where Cotton had just before struck the<lb></lb>
deced. with the Hammer: that presently afterwards <lb></lb>
Cotton was taken to a Constable's who took Cotton before<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ80">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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as Dept. hath been informed and believes<lb></lb>
who as Dept. hath likewise being informed and believes<lb></lb>
commited Cotton to<del>the</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo212">New Prison</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo213">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and Dept.<lb></lb>
never saw the deced afterwards till this day when Dept. and<lb></lb>
Whom dead in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo214">St. Bartholomew's Hospital</rs>
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</p>
<p n="364">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15085_date36">11th. day of July 1774</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="365"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n365-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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Corr.</p>
<p n="366"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n366-1">Wm. King</rs>
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