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<p n="484"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo440">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witness taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65233_date66">28th. day<lb></lb>
of Febry 1793</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo441">Parish of St. Grocer Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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at the Dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n484-1">Joseph<lb></lb>
Silcock</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo442">Sign of the their Compasses</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo443">Bird Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo444">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n484-332">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ240">Coroner</rs>
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for the City and Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n484-3">Elizabeth Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there lying dead in follows</p>
<p n="485"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n485-1">William Jones</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo445">Bird Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ241">Yeoman</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
sworn saith that on Monday the Eleventh<lb></lb>
day of February 1793 between 5 and 6 o'Clock<lb></lb>
in the Evening that he heard some in the<lb></lb>
adjoining room when he lodged No. in said Street which<lb></lb>
a purpect falling down on the Floor and<lb></lb>
he heard some body cry out murder<lb></lb>
whereupon this Deponent went into the <lb></lb>
Room where her found the deceased alone lying<lb></lb>
on the Floor near the<obscured></obscured>
all in a<lb></lb>
blaze and he immediately pulled her<lb></lb>
further from the Fire Place and endeavoured<lb></lb>
to extingquish the Fire of her Cloaths<lb></lb>
which pulled part of her Cloaths from<lb></lb>
off one side of her when she was<lb></lb>
insensible and Speechless when some<lb></lb>
Neighbours came into the Room and one<lb></lb>
of them</p>
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