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<p n="8"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo5">Middlesex</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and<lb></lb>
Acknowledged on the behalf of his Majesty the 7th. day of<lb></lb>
June in the Year of Our Lord 1767 At the House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n8-1">Robert Fairfax</rs>
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known by the Sign of the Grave Morris<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo6">opposite the London Hospital</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo7">Saint<lb></lb>
Mary White Chappell</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo8">County of Middlesex</rs>
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before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n8-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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One of the Coroners for the said County<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n8-4">John Datty</rs>
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then and there lying dead<lb></lb>
as follow (to wit)</p>
<p n="9"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n9-1">James Taylor</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo9">Whilly</rs>
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Yorkshire <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ2">Master of the Ship</rs>
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Called<lb></lb>
the Freelove Saith That this day fortnight Informant was<lb></lb>
Board said Ship at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo10">Shadwell Dock</rs>
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That between three<lb></lb>
and four in the Afternoon several Sailors went<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
from On Board<lb></lb>
Other Ships lying therein Order to go on Shore<del>to</del>
at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo11">Shadwell Dock</rs>
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to a Number of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ3">Coalheavers</rs>
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who were then at the Stairs<lb></lb>
Armed with Cullasses Swords &That they went to the<lb></lb>
Coalheavers (as Informant Supposes) to know what the<lb></lb>
Coalheavers wanted with them That Batty Seeing the said<lb></lb>
Sailors go on Shore he would go to and went on Shore<lb></lb>
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and Stood there in the middle of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ4">Coalheavers</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the Space of Ten Minutes or upwards and they did not<lb></lb>
Offer to Strike or middle with himThat while Batty<lb></lb>
was on Shore a Dispute Arose amongst the Sailors who<lb></lb>
had gone from the Other Ships and the Coalheavers<lb></lb>
That Informant did not See Batty go And cannot tell whether<lb></lb>
or not he had any thing in his HandsThat he withdrew<lb></lb>
from the<del>Ground</del>
Crowd after they began Quarrelling and<lb></lb>
got upon Some Timber lying near the StairsThat</p>
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