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<p n="122"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo75">City and</rs>
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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo76">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this Eighth<lb></lb>
day of February 1764. at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo77">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo78">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition<lb></lb>
taken on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n122-1">Evan Jones</rs>
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lying Dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="123"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n123-1">James Frith</rs>
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of May Fair (Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n123-2">James Frith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50532_occ33">Chandler</rs>
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)<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, that he was taking a Walk<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo79">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo80">Parish of St. George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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within the Liberty to Westmr. on Sunday last<lb></lb>
in the Afternoon between two and three O' Clock, Says<lb></lb>
that he heard a Noise, which he took to be the Report<lb></lb>
of a Pistol, and on looking round Deponent saw a<lb></lb>
Man<del>full</del>
drop down on his right side and immediately<lb></lb>
after turned upon his back on the Ground in the Wilderness<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo81">Hyde Park</rs>
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aforesaid, at about twenty or thirty Yards<lb></lb>
distance from Deponent, says that there was another<lb></lb>
Man standing at about twelve or fourteen yards distance<lb></lb>
from the Man that fell down, at the time he dropt, Says<lb></lb>
that he immediately went to the Person that lay on<lb></lb>
the Ground, and, the other<del>passed</del>
Man ran by Deponent, having<lb></lb>
three Pistols and two Swords in his hands, and said, that<lb></lb>
he was going for a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50532_occ34">Surgeon</rs>
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, Says that<del>on going to</del>
<lb></lb>
another Person (whose Name Deponent knows not came to Deced<lb></lb>
about the same time as he Did, Says that they lifted up<lb></lb>
the Deced on his backside, and the Deced then did spit<lb></lb>
much Blood, Says that he asked Deced if he was Wounded<lb></lb>
to which Deced replied that the was Wounded under the<lb></lb>
right Arm, but that there had been no foul Play shewn,<lb></lb>
Deponent says that be beleives the Wound was reced<lb></lb>
by a Bull discharged from a Pistol, by the other<lb></lb>
Man that went away (whose name Deponent knows not)<lb></lb>
but says that Deced did not mention his Name, Deponent<lb></lb>
says that he after wards found three Pistols and two<lb></lb>
Swords in a hallow tree in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo82">Hyde Park</rs>
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, about one<lb></lb>
hundred and fifty Yards distance from that Place, says that the<lb></lb>
Persons that come to the Deced first with him, took up<lb></lb>
another Pistol that lay on the Ground near the Deced,</p>
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