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<p n="2387"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2486">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2487">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty<lb></lb>
third day of Decr. 1790 at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2488">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2489">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of<lb></lb>
Midsex upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2387-1">Sarah Cox</rs>
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lying dead in<lb></lb>
the said Parish LIberty and County</p>
<p n="2388"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2388-1">Thomas Palmer</rs>
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Servant to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2388-2">Robert Graham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Esqr. at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2490">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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New Square in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2491">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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Westmr. on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
that he slept in Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2388-3">Graham's Chambers</rs>
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last<lb></lb>
Night and that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2388-4">Sarah Cox</rs>
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the Deced who was<lb></lb>
Servant to Mr. Graham slept in another Guard<lb></lb>
there Says that between four and five<lb></lb>
o'Clock this Morning Dept. was awaked<lb></lb>
by the Noice of something falling down<lb></lb>
and perceived that it Lightened very<lb></lb>
much upon which he went to call<lb></lb>
the Deced but had no answer, and was<lb></lb>
going down the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Garret Stairs he heard some part<lb></lb>
of the Chimmeys fall down Says that<lb></lb>
he called one of the Porters of Linconls<lb></lb>
Inn and Mr. Graham's Clerk and Dept<lb></lb>
went into Deced's Room where he<lb></lb>
saw a great Quantity of Bricks in the<lb></lb>
Room and upon Deced's Bed one of<lb></lb>
the Wooden Beams having likewise<lb></lb>
fallen upon Deced who was in Bed<lb></lb>
Says that he assisted to<del>got</del>
remove the<lb></lb>
Bricks when He found the Deced lying upon<lb></lb>
the Bed, being dead as Dept. believes as<lb></lb>
he preceived so Signs of Life in her and<lb></lb>
Dept. believes that the Deced was Acciden<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
killed by the Chimneys falling upon her<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
there being several Bruised upon her<lb></lb>
Body, And Says that the Wind was very<lb></lb>
high and that it Thundered and Lightened<lb></lb>
very much at the time</p>
<p n="2389"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2389-1">Thos Palmer</rs>
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<p n="2390">Sworn the day Year &<lb></lb>
Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2390-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ948">Coroner</rs>
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