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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo216">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this First day of February<lb></lb>
1766 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo217">St. Margaret within</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo218">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo219">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition taken on View<lb></lb>
of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n248-1">Henry Howard</rs>
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lying Dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish City Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="249"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n249-1">Abraham Whalley Humphreys</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo220">Palace Yard</rs>
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Surgeon<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, that he is one of the Surgeons belonging<lb></lb>
to the Westmr. Hospital in the Parish of St. Margaret, and that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n249-2">Henry Howard</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ85">Deced</rs>
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was brought to said Hospital the<lb></lb>
Twenty second day of January last Says that he Examined the Deft.<lb></lb>
on the Twenty Third and found no external Marks of Violence<lb></lb>
on the deced, but the Deced complained of very great pain<lb></lb>
in the Per<obscured></obscured>
and a Suppression of Urine, Says that<lb></lb>
proper care was taken of the Deced, but<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he continued to<lb></lb>
grow worse to the time of his Death, which happened<lb></lb>
last Night about ten o'Clock. And this Dept. says that<lb></lb>
the Deced informed him that he had reced a Kick from<lb></lb>
an Irish Chairman near his Testicles which this<lb></lb>
Dept. believes to be the Cause of Death.</p>
<p n="250"> <obscured></obscured>
Humphrey</p>
<p n="251"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n251-1">Elizabeth Howard</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ86">Widow</rs>
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of the Deced, a Lodger of<lb></lb>
Mr. Wheelers a Baker in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo221">the Strand</rs>
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on her Oath saith, that<lb></lb>
on the Seventh day of January last, the Deced went from<lb></lb>
his Lodgings about Seven o'Clock, to spend the Evening with<lb></lb>
some Friends at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo222">Crown and Anchor</rs>
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Tavern in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo223">the Strand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced did not return hence to Dept. until about<lb></lb>
Nine o'Clock in the Evening of the Eighth day of January<lb></lb>
when he informed Deponent, "That he stand with his<lb></lb>
"Friends at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo224">Crown and Anchor</rs>
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Tavern until five o'Clock<lb></lb>
"that Morning, that he then went up <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo225">Bridges Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
"Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo226">St. Paul Covent Garden</rs>
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and that four Ir<obscured></obscured>
Chairman<lb></lb>
"whose names he knew not that were standing there, said to Deced, My Noble Singing Master<lb></lb>
"Howard, will you treat us with a Pot of Purl, to which he<lb></lb>
"answered that had no halfpence, upon which the Chairman</p>
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