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Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and<lb></lb>
Acknowledged the fourth day of January in the Year<lb></lb>
of Our Lord 1769 At the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50591_n79-1">Oswald Broady</rs>
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known by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50591_geo55">Sign of Bishop Blare in New Inn Yard</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50591_geo56">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50591_geo57">County of Middlesex</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50591_n79-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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One of<lb></lb>
the Coroners for the said County touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50591_n79-3">George Hopkins</rs>
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then and there lying Dead as follows<lb></lb>
(to Wit)</p>
<p n="80"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50591_n80-1">William Durant</rs>
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of Bryant Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50591_geo58">Shoreditch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50591_occ34">Weaver</rs>
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Saith Hopkins Dealt in PolognesThat the last time<lb></lb>
Informant Saw him was the Morning after the first<lb></lb>
day of the Election at BrantfordThat Informant is an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50591_occ35">Headborough</rs>
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and so was Hopkins And they were both<lb></lb>
Ordered to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50591_geo59">Brentford</rs>
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That Informant was at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50591_geo60">Brentford</rs>
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but did not See Hopkins thereThat as<lb></lb>
soon as Informant Came Home at Night he heard<lb></lb>
that Mr Hopkins was come Home terribly Bruised<lb></lb>
and Hurt on his HeadThat was the Cause of<lb></lb>
Informants going the next Morning<lb></lb>
That Informant was at Hopkins that next Morning between Nine and<lb></lb>
Ten and found him Sitting in a Chair That on<lb></lb>
Informants Asking him how he did he said he was<lb></lb>
much hurt And said he had Received three Blows on<lb></lb>
his Head as he Imagined by same short Bludgean<lb></lb>
That they were given immediately One after another<lb></lb>
So Quick that he could not Turn round</p>
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