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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<lb></lb>
Information of witnesses taken &<lb></lb>
acknowledg'd on behalf of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King touching the death. of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50500_n1-1">Jno. Wager</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo1">Parish of Kensington</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo2">County of Middx</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the 10th. day of Augt. in the first year of <lb></lb>
the Reign of his Prsent Maty before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50500_n1-2">Edward <lb></lb>
Umfreville</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50500_occ1">Coroners</rs>
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of the sd. County <lb></lb>
on an inquisition then & there taken on <lb></lb>
View of the Body of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50500_n1-3">Jno. Wager</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then & there lying <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50500_occ2">dead</rs>
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as follow.</p>
<p n="2"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1.</note>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50500_n2-1">Philip Mills</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo3">Kensington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50500_occ3">Laborer</rs>
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, hath<lb></lb>
known the deced 10 or 12 Years. That yesterday <lb></lb>
Morning Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50500_n2-2">Richard Hutchins</rs>
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his Matr men being at Break-<lb></lb>
-fast at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo4">White Hart</rs>
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- The Witness went to call <lb></lb>
them to their Work - the deced was one of the <lb></lb>
Company - The Witness & the men in returning <lb></lb>
found the Prisoner at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo5">Chandlers Shop</rs>
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door at <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50500_n2-3">Thos. Serives</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo6">Earls Court</rs>
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with a Hay Fork near him.<lb></lb>
- it was given out the Prisoner had stoln the Fork<lb></lb>
& had Cut out two Lres wh. had been<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
burnt <lb></lb>
in. That the deced Endeavoring to see the Fork,<lb></lb>
the Prisoner took it & said no body shd. look at it,<lb></lb>
the deced neverthless laid hold of it, & the <lb></lb>
Prisoner swore it was his own Fork, he bought it <lb></lb>
in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50500_geo7">Robin<obscured></obscured>
pur Lane</rs>
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- That in the strugle the Prisoner <lb></lb>
was too much for the deced - saw the strugle but <lb></lb>
did not see the wounding or the Fork in the Body,<lb></lb>
- but he saw the Prisonr. with the Fork in his left hand <lb></lb>
shove the Fork towards the deced - That the</p>
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