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<p n="514"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo628">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo629">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witness taken this tenth<lb></lb>
day of May 1764 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo630">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo631">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo632">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, on an Inquisition<lb></lb>
taken on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n514-1">James Longmire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty & County</p>
<p n="515"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n515-1">Robert Bean</rs>
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of the Second Troop of Life Guards on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith, That on Tuesday last between Nine and ten O'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening Deponent and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n515-2">Robert Snelson</rs>
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went with <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n515-3">James<lb></lb>
Longmire</rs>
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the Deced, into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo633">Hyde Park</rs>
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, Deponent intending to<lb></lb>
Swim, Says that Deced undressed himself and went into the<lb></lb>
Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo634">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo635">Parish of St George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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, and swam across the said River, Deponent<lb></lb>
and Mr. Snelson staying beg the Clothes, Says that Deced came<lb></lb>
back into the Middle of the River, and there said to Dept.<lb></lb>
that he had got hold of a Cork upon which Deponent Desired<lb></lb>
that he would swim out, it being Dark, and Deponent<lb></lb>
was not able to discover the Deced any longer, Says that<lb></lb>
he did not hear the Deced speak afterwards, tho he (Depont)<lb></lb>
and Mr. Snelson called to Deced several times and staid<lb></lb>
near the Waterside untill Eleven O'Clock, but could have<lb></lb>
no Account of him, Says that they then Concluded that the<lb></lb>
Deced was Drowned and come home to Acquaint his Friends<lb></lb>
therewith Depont. says that he and several Other Persons<lb></lb>
went again to the Water side and brought the Deced's Clothes<lb></lb>
to his Lodgings in Green Street, Says that he went<lb></lb>
Yesterday Morning with others to the River side to see<lb></lb>
for the Deced, and that one <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n515-4">Charles Collington</rs>
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went into the<lb></lb>
Water and discovered the Deced lying Dead therein, says<lb></lb>
that the Deced was drawn to the Shore in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo636">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo637">Hanover Square</rs>
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aforesaid, and that he was their<lb></lb>
Dead, Says that there was no Person with Deced in the River<lb></lb>
when Deced was Swimming</p>
<p n="516"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n516-1">Robert Beane</rs>
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</p>
<p n="517"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n517-1">George Robinson</rs>
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belonging to the Second Troop of Life Guards<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, that he was acquainted on Tuesday Night<lb></lb>
last that the Deced was Drowned in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo638">Serpentine River</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo639">Hyde Park</rs>
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, Says that the next Morning Deponent and<lb></lb>
other Persons went to the River side to look for Deced, and<lb></lb>
that</p>
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