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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo75">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65204_date22">23d. day of<lb></lb>
January 1764</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo76">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
within</rs>
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the City and Liberty of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo77">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, on an Inquisition taken<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of a Woman Unknown<lb></lb>
lying Dead in the said Parish City and Liberty</p>
<p n="74"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n74-1">Sarah Ward</rs>
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to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n74-2">Mary Porter</rs>
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at the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ31">Syn<lb></lb>
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on her Oath saith, That<lb></lb>
on opening her Mistress's Door and Windows on Saturday<lb></lb>
Morning last about Seven O'Clock, she saw the Deced<lb></lb>
lye Dead in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo79">the Passage</rs>
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, says that no Marks of violence<lb></lb>
appeared on the Body of the Deced, and Deponent verily<lb></lb>
believes that the Deced died by the Inclemency of the<lb></lb>
Weather and for want of proper Instenance. Says she<lb></lb>
never saw the Deced alive to the Knowledge of Depont.</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n75-1">Sarah Ward</rs>
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to Mrs. Porter on her Oath<lb></lb>
saith that she saw Deced on friday Evening last about<lb></lb>
nine O'Clock lying in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo82">the Passage</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo84">Westminster Hall</rs>
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, Deponent says that she asked Deced<lb></lb>
whether she had any home, or knew any Body in<lb></lb>
that Neighbourhood, to which she replied, No, but said<lb></lb>
she thought that she (the Deced) was Struck with Death<lb></lb>
says that she gave Deced a Dram of Geneva; and<lb></lb>
afterwards went away leaving the Deced there, Says<lb></lb>
that upon her coming down Stairs on Saturday Morning<lb></lb>
she was informed by <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n76-2">Sarah Ward</rs>
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her Fellow Servant<lb></lb>
that a woman<del>the Deced</del>
lay Dead in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo85">the Passage</rs>
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, upon which Dept.<lb></lb>
went to see her, and found she was she same Person of<lb></lb>
whom Dept. has given the above Accot. Says she believes<lb></lb>
Deced died for want and by the Inclemency of the weather</p>
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