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<p n="2356">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2016">Westminster</rs>
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Information of Witnesses taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65233_date339">7th. Day<lb></lb>
of September 1793</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2017">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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at the Dwelling house of<lb></lb>
Mr. Grant the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2018">Sign of the White Horse</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2019">Knightsbridge</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n2356-32">Anthony Gell</rs>
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his<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2020">Majesty's</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ1219">Coroner</rs>
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for the City & Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n2356-2">John Jay</rs>
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then and there lying dead, as follow</p>
<p n="2357"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n2357-1">Mathew Thompson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ1220">Porter</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2021">St. Georges Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being sworn deposeth and saith that the deceased<lb></lb>
has been a Patient in the Hospital formerly the<lb></lb>
Space of six weeks and during that time has vacted<lb></lb>
frequently in the Cold Bath in the said Hospital<lb></lb>
on Account of his Disorder and generally had a<lb></lb>
Person to attend him when he but had that on Friday<lb></lb>
but the 6th. Instant abot 11 o'Clock in Forenoon being the days that the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
visit the Patients this deponent was going as usual (it<lb></lb>
being his duty) to attend them when he met the deceased<lb></lb>
upon the Landing of the Stain who told him he was<lb></lb>
going to bath whereupon this Deponent gave him<lb></lb>
the Key of the Bath, and about 5 in the Evening<lb></lb>
as this Deponent was going by the Bath he saw<lb></lb>
the Key in the Door and upon touching it open to<lb></lb>
saw they decand lying at the bottom of the Bath<lb></lb>
upon which he immediately informed the house<lb></lb>
apothecary who returned with him to the Ball<lb></lb>
and when they came there they found that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n2357-2">Wm. Masters</rs>
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and</p>
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