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<p n="1489"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and LIberty<lb></lb>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo987">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
this 5th. day of July 1796 in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo988">St.<lb></lb>
Margaret Westminster</rs>
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at the House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1489-1">Edward Carr</rs>
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the Sign of the Fox at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo989">Knights bridge</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1489-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his Magisty's <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ523">Coroner</rs>
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for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1489-3">Joseph Gwin</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
dead as follow,<lb></lb>
To Wit</p>
<p n="1490"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1490-1">Thomas Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ524">Apprentice</rs>
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to the said late <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1490-2">Joseph<lb></lb>
Gwin</rs>
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No. 110 in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo990">Long Acre</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ525">Coach-Printer</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
sworn deporeth that about seven o'Clock on Sunday<lb></lb>
morning last (the 3d. of July Instant) the deceased<lb></lb>
and this Deponent went from his house in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo991">Long<lb></lb>
Acre</rs>
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to the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo992">Hyde Park</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to bath which they had frequently done before<lb></lb>
and they both swam across the Serpentine River<lb></lb>
and as they were returning across again the deced<lb></lb>
said he felt himself tired and having turned to<lb></lb>
swim on his Back his head went under Water<lb></lb>
which<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
almost suffocated him<lb></lb>
and he put his hands out of the Water two or three<lb></lb>
times, and then sunk quite under the Water and never<lb></lb>
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