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Informations of Witnesses taken and Acknowledged the 24th. day of
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April in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty
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four At the House of
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Turkish Slave in
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One of the
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Coroners for the said County touching the Death of
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of the had of 17 or thereabt being Sworn and Examined Saith That about Six. o Clock in the Evening of Monday the
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23d. April 1764 being Easter Monday as This Informant was Coming up
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aforesaid he Saw a Cart with Two Horses
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in it And the Driver of the Cart (whose Name this Informant doth not know)
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was helping the Deceased up on the Shafts of the Cart That soon afterwards
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this Informant Saw the deceased standing on the Shafts of the Cart and
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heard him Cay out as the Horses were going on I shall Tumble I shall
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be down or words to that Effect whereupon the said Driver of the
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Cart kept Lifting up the deceased with his hand while the Horses
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were going on And so continued Lifting him up
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for some little time
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hill this Informant saw the deceased fall from the said Shafts
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of the Cart upon the Ground on the near side of the said Cart And
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that the near What of the said Cart went over the deceased Body
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about the small of his backThat
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there were two Horses in the said Cart the foremost of which
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Appeared to this Informant not to be much used to Drawing
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That the deceased fell very near the said Wheel as near as possibly
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