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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50566_geo1">Middlesex</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and Acknowledged<lb></lb>
On the behalf of Our Sovereign Lord the King the Eleventh day<lb></lb>
of December in the Year of Our Lord 1766 and in the Seventh<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lords King George the Third<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God of Great Britain Etc-before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50566_n1-1">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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One of the Coroners for the said County touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50566_n1-2">Mary Hobbs</rs>
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then and there lying dead as follow (to wit)</p>
<p n="2"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50566_n2-1">John Cobb</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50566_geo2">Old</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50566_geo3">George Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50566_geo4">Spitalfields</rs>
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Saith he hath known the<lb></lb>
Deceased about three MonthsThat the Deceased was about ten Years old & was an<lb></lb>
Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50566_n2-2">Mary Collins</rs>
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who Lived next Door but One to Informant<lb></lb>
That Collins had the Deceased out of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50566_geo5">Shoreditch</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50566_geo6">Workhouse</rs>
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and had<lb></lb>
forty Shillings with her as he Debs.That Informants Warehouse Lies<lb></lb>
backwards And about three Months ago he heard the Cries of some<lb></lb>
Person And upon Looking to find where the Voice Came from he<lb></lb>
found it to be the Deceased who was then in a Milberry<lb></lb>
Free in Collins's YardThat there was Collins at the<lb></lb>
bottom of the Tree And there was a Man in the Tree (who he<lb></lb>
knows not) above the Deceased and he was fashing a Cord to<lb></lb>
One of the BranchesThat he thinks the Man was three or four<lb></lb>
Yards above the DeceasedThat Informant Called to Collins<lb></lb>
and Askd' her is she was going to Murder the Deceased And<lb></lb>
the Man in the Free Answered that he woud hang them all<lb></lb>
for so much a Piece But Collins made no Answer<lb></lb>
That then the Man and the Deceased Came out of the Free and<lb></lb>
went with Collins into her House and Informant did not see<lb></lb>
the Rope fastned to the Deceased Or anything at all done to her<lb></lb>
That Informant afterwards went into Collins house and askd'<lb></lb>
her what she meant by Attempting to Hang the Child<del>But whether</del>
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That Collins Answered she was a Naughty Girl had stolen<lb></lb>
an Handkerchief and a Knife But wher. she said she<lb></lb>
did the Above to frighten her or what was her Answer<lb></lb>
Informant don't know That about five Weeks ago<lb></lb>
when Informant Came down One Morning he found the Deceased</p>
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