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<p n="1719"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1693">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1694">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty<lb></lb>
-seventh day of September 1788 at the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1695">St. Margaret within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex upon a<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1719-1">William<lb></lb>
Crew</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="1720"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1720-1">Joseph Ward</rs>
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of Jefferys's Buildings in the Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret Westmr. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ628">Chandler</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That last Night about Six o'Clock Mrs. Crew the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Deced's Wife came to Dept. (who lives next Door<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Deced) and informed him that her Husband<lb></lb>
had Hanged himself upon which he went to<lb></lb>
the Deced's Room in the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1720-3">John Phippse</rs>
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and saw him Hanging by a<lb></lb>
Cord put over a Closet Door and foot red to a<lb></lb>
Nail on the other side of the Door, and with<lb></lb>
a running Noore around the Deced's Neck<lb></lb>
Says that with a Knife he cut the Card, the<lb></lb>
Body being Warm but the hands were Cold<lb></lb>
Says that a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ629">Surgeon</rs>
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was fetched, who said<lb></lb>
that it was too late, & that the Deced was dead<lb></lb>
and Dept.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
believes that the Deced Hanged<lb></lb>
himself, Dept. says that the Deced has been<lb></lb>
ill a long times and believes that he was<lb></lb>
at time Delirious.</p>
<p n="1721"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1721-1">Joseph Ward</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1722">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1722-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ630">Coroner</rs>
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