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<p n="2388"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2054">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65233_date344">23d. day<lb></lb>
of September 1793</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2055">Parish of St. John the<lb></lb>
Evangelist Westminster</rs>
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at the Dwelling house of<lb></lb>
Clarke the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2056">Sign of the Adam and Eve</rs>
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in<del>the</del>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2057">Bowling Street Westminster</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n2388-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ1252">Coroner</rs>
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for the City and Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid touching the Death of a Woman<lb></lb>
unknown then and there lying dead as<lb></lb>
follow.</p>
<p n="2389"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n2389-1">Francis North</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2058">Rochester Row Court</rs>
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under being<lb></lb>
sworn deposeth and saith That as he and two of his<lb></lb>
Companions were walking up <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2059">Mill Bank</rs>
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between 8 & 9<lb></lb>
o'Clock on Saturday morning last the 21st. Instant between<lb></lb>
the Sign of the Rae Buch and the Timber Yard they saw<lb></lb>
the Body of the deceased lying in the Ditch on the right<lb></lb>
hand side of the Bank near to and which communicates<lb></lb>
with <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2060">the Common</rs>
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Sewer whereupon they immediately<lb></lb>
went into the Water and dragged the Body out and<lb></lb>
laid it on the ground when it appeared to be a Woman<lb></lb>
and that she was quite Sliff and cold without any<lb></lb>
Signs of life or Marks of Violence upon the body<lb></lb>
that she had<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
this Deponent and his Companions then went and<lb></lb>
acquainted the Overseers of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo2061">Parish of St. John's<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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with what they had run and done<lb></lb>
and this Deponent saith that he heard the deceased<lb></lb>
had</p>
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