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<p n="1425"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1450">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1451">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Second day<lb></lb>
of July 1790 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1452">Parish of St. Martin in the<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1453">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1425-1">John Banfield</rs>
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lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1426"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1426-1">Mary Ann Gravestocke</rs>
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a Lodger at the late<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1426-2">John Banfield</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ556">Deced</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1454">Rose Street</rs>
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on her Oath saith<lb></lb>
That she has Lodged there about four Years and<lb></lb>
generally saw the Deced very day, Says that<lb></lb>
this Morning Dept. returned from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1455">Covent<lb></lb>
Garden Market</rs>
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about Seven o'Clock, and<lb></lb>
finding that the Deced's Shop was not opened<lb></lb>
this Dept. opened the Work Shop and saw the<lb></lb>
Deced Hanging by a Cord which was fastened<lb></lb>
to a<del>Wooden</del>
piece of Wood<del>supp</del>
and about<lb></lb>
the Deced's Neck his feet touching the Ground<lb></lb>
as Dept. thinks, Says that she pulled the ford<lb></lb>
and the Deced fell down as did this Dept. That<lb></lb>
the Deced appeared to be dead, and Dept.<lb></lb>
believes that the Deced Hanged himself<lb></lb>
Says that she often heard the Deced walk<lb></lb>
about his Bedchamber in the Night and G<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
having got up out of Bed, and Dept. believes<lb></lb>
that the Deced has at times been Disordered<lb></lb>
in his Mind for four or five months, past or<lb></lb>
upwards, and Says that when she saw the Deced<lb></lb>
lost Night he appeared to be Melancholy and<lb></lb>
low Spirited.</p>
<p n="1427"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1427-1">Mary Ann<lb></lb>
Gravestock</rs>
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<p n="1428"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1428-1">Mary Ann Bree</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ557">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1428-2">Richard Bree</rs>
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on her<lb></lb>
Oath saith, That she saw the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ558">Deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1428-3">John Banf</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
ld<lb></lb>
Hanging in his Work shop this Morning That<lb></lb>
her Mother Mary Ann Gravestock pulled the<lb></lb>
Cord by which he was Hanging and Deced droppd<lb></lb>
down, and her Mother fall down with him<lb></lb>
That the Deced appeared to be dead, and<lb></lb>
Dept. believes that the Deced Hanged himself<lb></lb>
and Dept. says that she believes the Deced was<lb></lb>
at times Disordered in his Mind</p>
<p n="1429">Mary Ann Bree<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
her Mark</p>
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