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Westmr</rs>
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. in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1764">Midsex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
Informations taken this fourth day<lb></lb>
of October 1788 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1765">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1766">Hanover Square</rs>
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with in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1767">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of a woman unknown lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="1795"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1795-1">Jacob Somerford</rs>
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a <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1768">Chelsex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ649">Pensioner</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith That on Thursday last the Second<lb></lb>
Instant between one and two o'Clock Dept. was<lb></lb>
walking in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1769">Willow Walk</rs>
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when he saw<lb></lb>
same Linen floating upon the Water in the<lb></lb>
Ditch on the South side of the Walk, Says<lb></lb>
that on taking hold of it he saw the Aren of<lb></lb>
the Deced, upon which he went to acquaint<lb></lb>
Mr. Hardy therewith who came with two<lb></lb>
other Men and assisted Dept. to pull the Deced<lb></lb>
out of the Ditch, when she appeared to be<lb></lb>
dead, that some Blood come out of her<lb></lb>
Tongue, but Dept. observed no other hurt<lb></lb>
upon the Deced, Says that Mr. Hardy and<lb></lb>
the other Men carried Deced to the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1770">Sign of<lb></lb>
the Monster</rs>
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and that Mr. North the Surgeon<lb></lb>
was fetched who boned<obscured></obscured>
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the Deced and said<lb></lb>
that she had been dead some time.</p>
<p n="1796"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1796-1">Jacob<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Somerford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his Mark</p>
<p n="1797"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1797-1">Samuel Hardy</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1771">Willow Walk</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1772">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1773">Hanover Square</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith that Yesterday between One<lb></lb>
two o'Clock Jacob Somerford came to Dept.<lb></lb>
and informed him that a Woman was Deced<lb></lb>
in the Ditch by the side of the Willow Worlk<lb></lb>
upon which he went and saw the Deced in<lb></lb>
the Ditch lying on her side with the Head<lb></lb>
down wards, Says that he assisted to pull her<lb></lb>
out</p>
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