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<p n="122"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr:</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n122-1">James Davis</rs>
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of Coll Sebrights Company in the 1st. Rigimt. of Foot Guards<lb></lb>
Touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n122-2">John Stivers</rs>
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taken upon Oath this 19th day of<lb></lb>
September 1753</p>
<p n="123">Who saith that on Tuesday the 28th. day of Augst last about a Quarter of<lb></lb>
an hour past Eight o' Clock in the Morning He together with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n123-1">Simon<lb></lb>
Steptoe</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ61">Soldier</rs>
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came from the Magazine Guard in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo118">Hyde Park</rs>
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toward<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo119">Gorvenor Gate</rs>
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He saw a Boy in Brownish Cloathes in a Walunt tree<lb></lb>
next the Gap opposite Grosvenor Gate-That two Persons coming or<lb></lb>
Horseback thro' the said Gate one of them Smacking his Whip he saw<lb></lb>
The Boy get down hastily from the Tree that Immediately after the<lb></lb>
Said two Horsemen had past the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
said Boy he saw the Said Boy upon his Legs<lb></lb>
and that he heard not any Complaint made by the Paid Boy, and that<lb></lb>
he saw no Person on Persons near the Said Boy or near the said Gate<del>near</del>
<lb></lb>
Except the Said Two Horsemen And further saith That he and his<lb></lb>
said Comrade than departed out of the Park</p>
<p n="124">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n124-1">James Davis</rs>
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<p n="125">taken and Acknowledg'd<lb></lb>
on Oath before R: Jackson<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ62">Coroner</rs>
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