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<p n="1133"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1133-1">Christopher Mackwell</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1181">white cross street</rs>
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Middx <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ476">Butcher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh oath that on Monday morning last Depts being in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1182">smithfield</rs>
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going to ask the price of a Beast, a Man <obscured></obscured>
called<lb></lb>
Plate bid Dept not to go near a Bullock which he then pointed out<lb></lb>
and which is sayed to be the same that killer the deced, for, that he<lb></lb>
was vicious and very wild, and would have rural a feather when he brought<lb></lb>
it into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1183">Smithfield</rs>
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in the morning to lye <obscured></obscured>
upon which Dept told<lb></lb>
him be should secure it or where it was turned off it might do such<lb></lb>
mischief; at this time the Beast was tied with two ropes, but in <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
they are secured writ on only; that a short time afterwards Dept saw<lb></lb>
the beast wit said Plate at it Head and one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1133-2">Francis Parker</rs>
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behind it<lb></lb>
& it was presently loosened, and the said Parker with a stick he had<lb></lb>
pooked the <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Beast behind, and the Beast ran on an the said<lb></lb>
Parker following it and pushing it with the stick he had as it went<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
that as first there were two other Beasts wit it but said Parker drove the<lb></lb>
said forth mentioned Beast from them, and it ran on up saint John<lb></lb>
street followed by with said Plato and Parker. Dept says that Place was going on by the side of the Beasts<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1133-3">white Parker</rs>
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was acting as before mentioned; and Dept says that<lb></lb>
before the first mentioned Beast was seperated from the other two by the<lb></lb>
during of Parker, he (Depts) sayed to the said Plate & Parker "if any<lb></lb>
Accident shall happen from this Bullock it will he to your charge"<lb></lb>
Dept says that in about half an hour or less after this, he saw<lb></lb>
the deced taken, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1184">across smithfield</rs>
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to the Hospital on a Shutter.</p>
<p n="1134">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date170">14th. day of September<lb></lb>
1786</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="1135"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1135-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ477">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1136"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1136-1">Chris Blackwell</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1137"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1137-1">Thomas Jackson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15097_n1137-1" type="surname" value="Jackson"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15097_n1137-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1185">stoke Newington</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1186">Middx</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ478">Butcher</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
oath that on Monday morning last Dept bought the bullock which has<lb></lb>
killed the deced of Mr. Ireland in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1187">Smithfield</rs>
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, and Dept says that <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
soon afterwards Mr. Peach a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ479">Butcher</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15097_occ479" type="occupation" value="Butcher"></interp>
told Dept that the Bullock looked<lb></lb>
shy and he would have Dept. take care of it. Dept <obscured></obscured>
went to the<lb></lb>
Bullock, and sayed to two Men who were by the Bullock & when Dept<lb></lb>
took to<obscured></obscured>
drown of Mr. Ireland <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the he was informed<lb></lb>
the Bullock was build and he did not know what to do with it; and they</p>
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