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Informations taken this Twenty first day of April
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1764 at the
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within the Liberty of
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Westmr. in the
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on an Inquisition taken
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on View of the Body of
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Robert Griffiths
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lying Dead in the said
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Parish Liberty and County.
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John Steevens
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of
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Great Windmill Street
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in the said
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Parish of St.
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James
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Upholsterer
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in his Oath saith, That on Thursday Night last
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about Eleven o'Clock Deponent being in his own House heard the
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Voice of one Person or two in the Street, and a Noise against
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the Street Door as if somebody had fallen against it, Says that
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he immediately opened the Street Door, and thereupon the Deced's left side
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came against the Deponent, Deced being then as Deponent
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believes upon his backside but Deced saw no other person
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at the Door, Says that he spoke to the Deced several times
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but Deced was speechless and could make no Answer, Says
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that he saw no Marks of Violence on the Deced, says that he
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was Alive when Deponent first opened the Door, and that
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Deced died in about half on hour after, Says that he sent by
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the Watchman who came there, and that said Watchman afterwards went to
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the Watchhouse belonging to said Parish and brought the
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Lanthorn bearer there, who fetched two Chairman, who
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carried the Deced away upon their Horse, Says that he
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this day viewed the Deced in the
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Workhouse
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belonging to the
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and believes him to be the same of
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whom he has given the above Account.
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John Steevens
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Robert Barnes
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one of the Watchmen of
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St. James Parish
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on
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his Oath saith, that as he went along on Thursday Night last
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crying the hour of Eleven, he saw
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Thomas Gardner
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and
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another Person, whose Name Deponent does not know,
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in the
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Hay Market
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just before the
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Thistle
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and Crown, and the
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Deced, who was in a
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Butcher
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's Basket, Says that he asked the
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Deced how he did, that the Deced groaned and said Namesake
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how do you do, Says that Deponent Thomas Garden and
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another Person lifted up the Basket with the Deced in it
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and put it upon the Knot which the said Young Men
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unknown had on, says that the said Man unknown did
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