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<p n="371"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n371-1">Thomas Connyer</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo219">Muzzle Hill</rs>
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aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ85">Servt</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n371-2">James Townsend</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ86">Esqr</rs>
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. maketh Oath and saith<lb></lb>
that on Wednesday the 22d. day of June last as Dept<lb></lb>
was driving his Curt towds. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo220">Crouch End</rs>
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aforesd.<del>he<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
said Cotter and deced. together</del>
the deced came to Dept<lb></lb>
and told Dept. that Cottar<obscured></obscured>
him the deced a Sum of<lb></lb>
money and desired Dept. to see him righted; that<lb></lb>
thereupon the deced came up to Cotton and asked Cotton<lb></lb>
to pay him the money which Cotton refused to do<lb></lb>
and told him he wod. never pay him: that the deced.<lb></lb>
then said to Cotton that he wod. not let Cotton go any<lb></lb>
further unless he paid him; that then sd. Cotton and the<lb></lb>
deced. having hold af rach at her Collars, they<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
stradled a cross a Ditch and Cotton with great Force<lb></lb>
struck the deced with the Chessell End of a Bricklayer<lb></lb>
Hammer which Cotton had then in his hand on the<lb></lb>
<del>Hand</del>
left side of his Head over his left<obscured></obscured>
a: that some<lb></lb>
Blows passed between the deced and Cotton afterwards<lb></lb>
and Dept. took hold of Cotton and seemed him and<lb></lb>
never saw the deced since till this day when Dept. saw<lb></lb>
the deced dead in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo221">St. Bartholomew's Hospital</rs>
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<p n="372">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15085_date38">11th. day of July 1774</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="373"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n373-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ87">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="374">of<lb></lb>
The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mark<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n374-1">Thomas Connyer</rs>
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<p n="375"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n375-1">Anne</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ88">Widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n375-2">William Sadler</rs>
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the deced late of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo222">Muzzle Hill</rs>
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aforesd.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ89">Victualler</rs>
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maketh Oath and<lb></lb>
saith that Dept. Husband having as Dept. was informed<lb></lb>
and believes by her sd. Husband received a violent Blow<lb></lb>
from <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n375-3">John Cotton</rs>
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with a Bricklayers Hammer on<lb></lb>
Wednesday the 22d. of June last her sd. Husband was the<lb></lb>
same Evening conveyed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo223">St. Bartholomew's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to be taken care of that on the Friday Morning Dept.<lb></lb>
went to the sd. Hospital to see the deced. who then appeared<lb></lb>
to be tolerably well, but complained of a pain in her hand<lb></lb>
that the deced then told Dept. that Cotton had struck him<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Hammer as aforesd: that on the Monday & Tuesday<lb></lb>
following the deced appeared to be very ill and said that<lb></lb>
he thought himself in a dangerous way and on the sd. Tuesday<lb></lb>
the deced uprated what he had before said to Dept. of Cotton<lb></lb>
having struck him with the Hammer as aforesd. says she<lb></lb>
was present when the deced died wch was on Saturday the<lb></lb>
9th. inst. and Dept. verily believes that<del>th</del>
his Death was<lb></lb>
occasioned by the Blow given him with the sd. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo224">Hammer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
by the sd. Cotton.</p>
<p n="376">Sworn the 11th. day of July 1774<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="377"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n377-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ90">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="378">of<lb></lb>
The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mark<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n378-1">Anne Sadler</rs>
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