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<p n="643"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50703_geo423">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and<lb></lb>
Acknowledged on the behalf of his Majesty the first day<lb></lb>
of September 1769 at the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50703_n643-1">John Perimony</rs>
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Known<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50703_geo424">Sign of the Parrot</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50703_geo425">Hoxton</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50703_geo426">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50703_geo427">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
touching the death of a woman Unknown then and<lb></lb>
there lying Dead as follow (to wit)</p>
<p n="644"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50703_n644-1">Mary Towle</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50703_occ247">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50703_n644-2">John Towle</rs>
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Saith<lb></lb>
That this Morning about Ten Minutes before four Informant<lb></lb>
was going to Milking and after she had Turnd the Corner about<lb></lb>
Ten Yards into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50703_geo429">Black Horse Walk</rs>
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she Pecked up<lb></lb>
a Womans Black Hat That it was very Dark And<lb></lb>
a few Yards further She Saw this Deceased Woman lying<lb></lb>
on her Face with her left hand upon her Back<lb></lb>
And about the same Distance beyond her as the Hat<lb></lb>
lay on One side Informant found a Stick [And Produces<lb></lb>
the Stick and Hat] That Informant did not Touch her<lb></lb>
That hearing Mr. Rolfs Carriers going by she call'd to them<lb></lb>
and five or Six of them Came Down to the Deceased<lb></lb>
That One of them felt of the Deceaseds Hand and said<lb></lb>
she was Dead enough Whether she had any thing<lb></lb>
Tied round her Neck Or Whether there was any Blood<lb></lb>
about her Or Whether or not she had all her Cloaths on<lb></lb>
Informant cannot Tell That it was very Dark<lb></lb>
And Informant had no Light with her Nor did she touch her<lb></lb>
That there were some bits of Rags in differrent Places lying<lb></lb>
near her</p>
<p n="645">The Mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50703_n645-1">Towle<lb></lb>
Mary</rs>
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