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Informations of Witnesses taken at the parish
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24th. day of November
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Edward Richards
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now
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here lying dead.
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Master of the Brig Eleanor lying
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near Pickle
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Stairs bound to Dublin in
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maketh Oath and saith he hath known
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tho deced
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for near this Thirty
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Years that the deced was a Native Barmouth their
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North Wales-that Dept the deced and another
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person of the Name of
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Owen Griffiths
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were in
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Companey together from about ½ past 5 until about
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seven in the Evening of Friday last-that about
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said hour of seven in the Evening Dept. the said other
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person missed of the deced who had just before been
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Walking near them-that on missing the deced
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he called him by Name an did the said other person
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it being very dark-that they recived no answer
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that they went to a Mrs. Knibbs in
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the deced had gone there as he used to lodge at said
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Mr: Knibbs-or that
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follow
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them there that Dept. and said other person staid at
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said house about half an hour but the deced never
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came-that then Dept. and said other person went on
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toward there respective Vessels - that the next Morning
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(being Saturday) about Eleven OClock
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in they foreman
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Dept. being on board his said Vessel a Person came along
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side his Vessel and informed him there was a Person lying
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dead on the Mud whom he suppored to
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that Dept. immediately went on shore to the
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place where said person had informed him body lay
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that on his comeing there found is to be the deced
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that as the time the deced left Dept. as before started the
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was a little intoxicated with Liquor Dept: further
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saith that on his first meeting with the
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about before
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Deced which was at Dock head he (Dept.)
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