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Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo603">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this fourth day<lb></lb>
of May 1764 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo604">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo605">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an<lb></lb>
Inquisition taken on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n487-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Clayton</rs>
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lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="488"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n488-1">John Heath</rs>
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Servant to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n488-2">Thomas Gunston</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo606">Jermyn<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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Pawnbroker on his Oath saith that Yesterday Evening<lb></lb>
between Eight and Nine O'Clock Deponent was in his<lb></lb>
Master's Warehouse on the ten of the House, says that<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n488-3">John Conyers</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ185">Fellow Servant</rs>
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rang the Bell in the<lb></lb>
Shop for Deponent, says that he came down, and said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n488-4">John Conyers</rs>
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did Depot. go to see for the Deced, for he<lb></lb>
believed that Tom (Meaning the Deced was gone to do<lb></lb>
for himself, whereupon Depot. went and found the<lb></lb>
Deced under the Stairs in the Dark, Says that the<lb></lb>
Deced came out laughing, and Depot. was sent up<lb></lb>
again soon after into the Warehouse, and after staying there<lb></lb>
three or four Minutes Deponent came down again,<lb></lb>
and in looking for the Deced, suspecting that he<lb></lb>
had made away with himself which he often<lb></lb>
said he would do in Depts. hearing Deponent discovered<lb></lb>
Deced hanging by a small Cord fixed to an Iron<lb></lb>
Bar over a Passage in the back part of Mr. Gunston<lb></lb>
house, with a running Noose round the Deced's Neck,<lb></lb>
says that he immediately called out to the Maid Servant<lb></lb>
for a Knife, says that before<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Knife was brought<lb></lb>
Depot. had lifted up the Deced and got his Neck out<lb></lb>
of the Cord and throw'd the Deced on the Ground, Dept.<lb></lb>
heard a rattling in the Deced's Throat, and thinking<lb></lb>
that he was not Dead, Dept. went to fetch some Person<lb></lb>
to Bleed the Deced, says that a Young Gentleman<lb></lb>
belonging to Mr. Seymour an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ186">Apothecary</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo607">Jermyn<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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came immediately and endeavoured to bleed<lb></lb>
the Deced, but he bled a few drops only and the</p>
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