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<p n="44"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo41">City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo42">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="45">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date13">Twenty fifth day<lb></lb>
of January 1763</rs>
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on an Inquisition of View of the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
a<obscured></obscured>
Unknown<obscured></obscured>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo43">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo44">Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo45">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="46"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n46-1">William Clear</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo46">Coach and Horses</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith That on Sunday<obscured></obscured>
st as he went to the Chapel he walker<lb></lb>
by the Common<obscured></obscured>
hand K<obscured></obscured>
to the River<lb></lb>
Thomas be observed a picea of Cloth in the Sewer near him<lb></lb>
own House but did not then stop not suspecting anything<lb></lb>
Say that after Dinner that day Deponent recollection that<lb></lb>
a Hat had been bound in a Field adjoyning Some time before<lb></lb>
Want to the<obscured></obscured>
again and upon breaking the Ice he<lb></lb>
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<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
he got deced out of the Tower and afterward carried him to<lb></lb>
an Out house belonging to Deponent Says that he found in<lb></lb>
deced's Pockets Eleven shillings in Silver four Pence an<lb></lb>
a forthing, a Knife, a Key, two Stock Buckles one of the<lb></lb>
Silver the other Bross, a pair of Knee Buckles, and as Iron B<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
when he was taken or of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo49">the Tower</rs>
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<p n="47"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n47-1">William Clear</rs>
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<p n="48"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n48-1">Richard Burchell</rs>
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on his Oath saith Th<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
on<obscured></obscured>
day<del>night last</del>
in the Afternoon he assisted <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n48-2">William Clear</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in getting out decad from the Common Sower leading from<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
dge to the River Thomas says that he was then Dea<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and that he took out of deced Pockets the several Things of<lb></lb>
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has given the above account.</p>
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<p n="50">Severally Sworn the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place abovementioned, before me<lb></lb>
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