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Informations taken this Third day of
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March 1766 at the Parish of
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lying Dead in the said
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Parish Liberty and County.
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Westmr. on his Oath saith, That about four years ago Dept.
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was a Serjeant in the Cold Stream Regarment of foot General
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and being Recrinting in
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, when the Deced came to
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him to
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in a Post Chain from Farnham to Enlist Says that he did
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Enlist the Deced, That he was there informed by several
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Persons that the Deced was not in his perfect Senses, and
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that he this Dept. has at different times since observed
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the Deced to be Disordered in his Mind, as this Dept
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verily believes. And this Dept. says that he was
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at home yesterday Morning about ten o'Clock when
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his Wife came home and informed Dept. that the Deced
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had cut his Throat, Says that he went out immediately
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and found the Deced lying on his back in a Hole in a
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in the said Parish of St. Margaret, Says that he
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saw a wound in Deced's Throat, and much Blood upon
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his Cloaths, and that Deced was Dead, and that Dept. was
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informed by People that were standing there that Deced had
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cut his Throat. and that the Deced afterwards Stabbed
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himself in the Belly.
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Henry Davis
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in the Cold Stream Regiment
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of Foot Guards on his Oath saith, That, the said Regiment was to
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be reviewed yesterday Morning in
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, That
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the Deced (who was a Soldier in his Company) did not appear
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but
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