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<p n="98"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx}<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n98-1">Catherine Wells</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50422_n98-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ51">wife</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50422_occ51" type="occupation" value="wife"></interp>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n98-2">Joshua Well</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50422_n98-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ52">Servant</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
Mrs. Nesbett of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo104">Upper Brook Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo105">St. Georges Hanover Square</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
taken before me this 12th. day<lb></lb>
of September 1753.</p>
<p n="99">Who being upon oath says that upon Tuesday the 28th day Augt. last<lb></lb>
she was Standing at her Master house in Upper Brook Street<lb></lb>
about eight in the Morning that she then saw a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Gentlewoman<lb></lb>
pass by who Sight often and repeated the words & good<lb></lb>
god upon which this Informant asked the said Gentleman<lb></lb>
what was the Matter and received for answer that there<lb></lb>
was a Fellow who had knockt down a Boy and beat him<lb></lb>
nay had almost killd him I beleive the villian has<lb></lb>
Murdered him by this time upon which this Informt.<lb></lb>
presently afterwards went down into the Park and<lb></lb>
there<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
within twenty yards of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo106">Grosvenor Gate</rs>
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she<lb></lb>
saw a Boy who appears to have been due <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n99-2">John Shivers</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50422_n99-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
who lately Died in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo107">Fyde Park Hospital</rs>
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lying on his<lb></lb>
face, says that he lay under a Waldnutt Tree that the<lb></lb>
ground on which he lay was a Dusty foot path<lb></lb>
that there was niether stone nor Stump of Tree nor<lb></lb>
anything Else which Appeared likely to hurt him<lb></lb>
near him, that she afterwards lock'd in at the<lb></lb>
widow of the Keepers house and there saw the</p>
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