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<p n="153">And this Deponent further saith that the Prisoner having some<lb></lb>
time since alledged that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ78">deceased</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n153-1">Henry Griffiths</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_n153-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
was born<lb></lb>
at a place called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo164">Strawberry</rs>
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in Queens County in the Kingdom<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo165">Ireland</rs>
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that his the said Deceased's Father was a<lb></lb>
Labouring Man living at the same place and that he the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ79">Prisoner</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_occ79" type="occupation" value="Prisoner"></interp>
was a first Cousin of the deceased by the Mothers<lb></lb>
SideThis Deponent soon after the Receipt of the said<lb></lb>
Lastmentioned Letter from Binsteed and Greetham wrote a<lb></lb>
Letter to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n153-2">Nicholas Morrison</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_n153-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ80">Esquire</rs>
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Crown Solicitor at<lb></lb>
Dublin with instructions to cause an immediate inquiry<lb></lb>
to be made into the truth of the Facts so alledged by the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ81">Prisoner</rs>
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and also to insert Advertisements in the Dublin<lb></lb>
Papers for discovery of the deceased's next of Kin And this<lb></lb>
Deponent saith that the Solicitor of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo166">the Admiralty</rs>
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<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
hath since received a Letter from Thomas<lb></lb>
Kemmes Esquire the present Crown Solicitor of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo167">Ireland</rs>
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<lb></lb>
bearing date at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo168">Dublin</rs>
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the twenty third of March last in<lb></lb>
the Words and Figures or to the purport and effect following<lb></lb>
that is to say "Sir Mr. Morrison late Crown Solicitor<lb></lb>
"having some time since resigned and I having been<lb></lb>
"appointed your letter did not come to my hands till<lb></lb>
"Thursday last I immediately wrote to the Queens County<lb></lb>
"to have the inquiry made which you directed and can't<lb></lb>
"find that there is any such Town or Village or even a Town<lb></lb>
"Land of the name of Strawberry in that County I am<lb></lb>
"perfectly acquainted with that County and with almost every<lb></lb>
"Man of any Consideration or Property therein and I never<lb></lb>
"heard of any Place there called Strawberry the Towns in that<lb></lb>
"County are Maryborough Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n153-11">mellich Palarlington Shadbally</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_n153-11" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
"Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n153-3">Rath Ballinahill</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_n153-3" type="given" value="Rath"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_n153-3" type="surname" value="Ballinahill"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15096_n153-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Timahoe <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo169">Castletown</rs>
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Baress in Ossay &<lb></lb>
"Rossnallis if the Prisoner you mention would tell on whose<lb></lb>
"Estate the deceased lived I will get the Information you<lb></lb>
"desire provided he was of that CountyI have caused<lb></lb>
"the Advertisement you<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
sent me to be inserted in the<lb></lb>
"Newspapers here if any person applys you shall be<lb></lb>
"informed" And this Deponent further saith that on the<lb></lb>
seventh day of this instant April he wrote and sent a Letter<lb></lb>
to the said Mr. Kemmes in Answer to the Letter abovestated<lb></lb>
suggesting this Deponents suspicions that the place called<lb></lb>
"Stradbally' in the said Mr. Kemmes Letter was the place<lb></lb>
intended by the Prisoner although from the manner of the<lb></lb>
Prisoners pronouncing the word this Deponent might have<lb></lb>
understood it to have been spelt "Strawberry" and therefore<lb></lb>
desiring the said Mr. Kemmes to make the necessary<lb></lb>
inquiry conformable to the instructions contained in this<lb></lb>
Deponents first mentioned Letter unless he had already<lb></lb>
discovered the next of Kin by means of Advertising<lb></lb>
And this Deponent saith he hath reason to<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and does expect to receive some intelligence from the<lb></lb>
said Mr. Kemmes relative to the next of Kin of the</p>
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