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<p n="980"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1194">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1195">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65227_date179">Twenty first<lb></lb>
day of July 1787</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1196">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1197">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n980-1">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="981"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n981-1">Martha Todd</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. Ellison in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1198">Down Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1199">Parish of St. George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ829">Spinster</rs>
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on his Oath saith That she<lb></lb>
has known <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n981-2">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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the Deced many<lb></lb>
Years, who lived with <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n981-3">Thomas Penny</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at Mr. Collingwood in Bright Street in the<lb></lb>
same Parish Says that on Wednesday last<lb></lb>
on being informed that the Deced was very ill<lb></lb>
Dept. went to her Apartment to see her, when<lb></lb>
she appeared to be very ill, but sensible<lb></lb>
having a Fever and was in several Fits<lb></lb>
Complaining of a pain in her rightside<lb></lb>
but did not say that it was caused by any<lb></lb>
hurt that she had reced from any Person<lb></lb>
Says that she helped to Dress the Deced on<lb></lb>
Thursday Morning and to carry her into<lb></lb>
the Adjoyning Court (called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1200">May's Buildings</rs>
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)<lb></lb>
the Deced being very weak and unable to<lb></lb>
Walk, Says that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n981-5">Thos. Penny</rs>
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gave Dept. a<lb></lb>
Shilling with which Dept. bought some Mutton<lb></lb>
and Oral Deced some Broth of which Deced<lb></lb>
drank two Basons Says that Deced sat about<lb></lb>
three hours in the Buildings and drank<lb></lb>
a Pivit of Beer and and a Pint of half in half<lb></lb>
Says that Deced was carried down Stairs<lb></lb>
sat some time by the Fire and was then helped<lb></lb>
into Bed, afterwards grew insensible, had<lb></lb>
several Fits and died about a Quarter after<lb></lb>
One o'Clock Yesterday Morning Says that she<lb></lb>
afterwards helped to lay the Deced out, and that<lb></lb>
no</p>
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