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<p n="1581"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1495">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1496">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this third day of<lb></lb>
September 1765 at the Parish of Mr. Margaret<lb></lb>
within the City & Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1497">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition taken on View<lb></lb>
of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1581-1">William Earle</rs>
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being Dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish City Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1582"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1582-1">John Wright</rs>
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of ax yard in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1498">St. Margaret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ518">Bricklayer</rs>
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in his Oath saith that he was sent<lb></lb>
for Yesterday Afternoon between six and seven o'Clock<lb></lb>
to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1582-2">William Gibbard</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ519">Baker</rs>
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in Kingstreet westm. to make<lb></lb>
good the Mouth of his Over, Says that he went there, and<lb></lb>
found Mr. Johnson a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ520">Chimney Sweeper</rs>
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and the Deced was was his Apprentice<lb></lb>
in Mr. Gibbard's Bakehouse, says that<del>another</del>
he Heard two other Boys<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
then in the Flue on Funnel of the Over Sweeping<lb></lb>
it, Says that soon after one of the said Boys came out<lb></lb>
and sweated very much, Dept. says that Mr.Johnson<lb></lb>
was gone away before the said Boy came out of the<lb></lb>
Flue, and that he this Dept. said to Deced, now by Boy<lb></lb>
do you go in upon which Deced readily went into<lb></lb>
the Flue of the Queen, says that in about four<lb></lb>
Minutes after Dept. went home,says that in about<lb></lb>
three on four minute after he got home, the young<lb></lb>
Man that he had left in the Bakehouse followed him<lb></lb>
and told him that Boy in the Chimney would be<lb></lb>
Smothered unless he would come to cut a Hole<lb></lb>
in the Brickwork, says that he went there imme-<lb></lb>
diately and found Mr. Johnson the Chimney Sweeper<lb></lb>
endeavouring to cut the Brickwork, Says that<lb></lb>
to took the Hammer out of Mr.Johnson heard and opened a Hole in the<lb></lb>
Chimney, opposite to the Place where Deced was<lb></lb>
Stuck fast, Says that said Mr.Johnson and Dept. took<lb></lb>
Deced out and carried him up Stairs into the Shop<lb></lb>
but Dept. observed no Signs of Life in the Deced<lb></lb>
Says that a surgeon was fetched immediately.</p>
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