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<p n="337">Information of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
at the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo289">Saint Bololph Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo290">Broad Street</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65002_date50">18th. day of February 1789</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n337-1">Alexander Shairp</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying deced.</p>
<p n="338"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n338-1">William Lucas</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo291">old</rs>
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Broad Street London <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65002_occ123">Surgeon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh oath that yesterday of little past 12 at noon<lb></lb>
Dept. may called on in a great hurry to go to the deceds. Mr<lb></lb>
Shairps house whither he accordingly went and found the<lb></lb>
deced. lying on<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Couch in a back room and a Green<lb></lb>
laying by his side. Dept. aforesaid a considerable wound on the<lb></lb>
right side of the deceds. head<del>which had</del>
and that Scull much that wood; that the<lb></lb>
Wound appeared to have been occasioned by a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
bullet or<lb></lb>
fall, that the deced. was the alive examined so for<lb></lb>
about<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
half an hour when he died. That his death was<lb></lb>
certainly occasioned by the Wound be premd.</p>
<p n="339">Sworn the 18th day of<lb></lb>
February 1789 before me}</p>
<p n="340">T Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="341"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n341-1">Wm Lucas</rs>
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<p n="342"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n342-1">David Orme</rs>
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of Great Saint Helen's<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo292">Bishopgate Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65002_occ124">Dr: of Physic</rs>
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maketh oath that<lb></lb>
he last known the deced. many years past, that his mind<lb></lb>
has been much agitated that has been<obscured></obscured>
in a<lb></lb>
melancholy state of mind for warly purpose monthly past<lb></lb>
& more particularly so lately in so much that his memory<lb></lb>
& culture were much impaired Dept says<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the<lb></lb>
deced laboured under a melancholy mian city.</p>
<p n="343">Sworn the 18th day of<lb></lb>
February 1789 before me}</p>
<p n="344">T Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="345"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n345-1">David Orme</rs>
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