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Informations taken this fourth day of April 1764
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on Monday last about four O'Clock in the Afternoon Deponent
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being at Work for Mr.
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of Orchard
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thereon drawn by the three Horses from Scotland Yard into
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,
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as Deponent believes, Says, that in coming from Warwick
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Street into Beet Street, and in going to turn
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John (whose Sir name Deponent knows not) found it would
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be difficult to pass there, and pulled the Horses close to the
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Iron Rails of the Houses in order to pass along, Deponent
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being then behind holding the Timber, Says that
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the Deced lay upon the Ground when Deponent first saw
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him, says that he immediately run to Deced who lay opposite
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to the fore part of said Timber, and bled at the Month and
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had A Cut upon his Head from which much Blood
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immediately, and Deponent believes that the Deced
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reced the Cut on his Head from the fore part of the Timber
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which occasioned his Death, and Says that he saw no
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Person near the Deced at that time, Says that the Carter
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had hold of the Middle Horse, with his Back towards the
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Deced at the time that the Deced reced the hurt, and
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verily believes that said Carter could not then see Deced.
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Says that the said piece of Timber was about thirty feet
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long, but Deponent does not know whose Property the
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on
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his Oath saith, that on Monday last in the Afternoon
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Deponent was driving three Horses belonging to said Mr.
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Brown drawing
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