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<p n="39"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50511_geo27">Shadwell</rs>
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. 21. 24. June 1762. Paviors Arms in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50511_geo28">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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, touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50511_n39-71">Lydia</rs>
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late the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50511_n39-1">Willm. Thatcher</rs>
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then & there<lb></lb>
lying dead.</p>
<p n="40"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50511_n40-1">Willm. Erridge</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50511_geo29">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50511_occ13">Surgeon</rs>
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That on the 10th of June instant abt. to at Night<lb></lb>
he was at his own door opposite Mrs. Coopers in the<lb></lb>
Highwayheard high Words & Vulgar between Mrs.<lb></lb>
Cooper & the decedbelieves them both in liquor<lb></lb>
he went away & left them drinking togr.Says<lb></lb>
he return'd home abt. hall after 11 & as he was<lb></lb>
knocking at his own door he heard the same Parties<lb></lb>
in the same vulgar way in Mrs. Coopers Housethe<lb></lb>
door was open & he saw Mrs. Cooper take the deced<lb></lb>
by the Arm & Put her out of her House but saw<lb></lb>
no BlowsThat the deced laid hold of the door Case<lb></lb>
& desired to come in againWords pass'd & Mrs.<lb></lb>
Cooper gave her a Pash from the door & shut her out<lb></lb>
Says the deced did not Jumble by the Pashlaw<lb></lb>
the deced Go by the door & return & said to the people<lb></lb>
within "the people who liv'd here before were<del>we</del>
Transported<lb></lb>
& you will be hang'd" upon this Mrs. Cooper came<lb></lb>
out & ask'd the deced, what she shd. be hang'd for,<lb></lb>
& the deced said very cooley "if you kill me, most<lb></lb>
Certainly you must be hang'd" that Mrs. Cooper as<lb></lb>
soon as the Words were spoke gave the deced a Shore<lb></lb>
or pash upon the Breast & she fell backwards upon<lb></lb>
the stone pavemt. & lay as he Thinks stun'd on the</p>
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