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<p n="844"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo661">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo662">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date164">Eleventh day of June 1771</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo663">St. Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo664">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the Death of<lb></lb>
a Woman Unknown lying dead a<obscured></obscured>
in the<del>said</del>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo665">St. Margaret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said Liberty & County.</p>
<p n="845"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n845-1">John Jackson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo666">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ230">Surgeon</rs>
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on his Oath saith That he this<lb></lb>
day Examined the Body of a Woman lying dead in the Watch house at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo667">Knightsbridge</rs>
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, and opened part of the Scalp of her Head, and did not<lb></lb>
find that the Skull was Fractured, nor has he any reason to believe<lb></lb>
from the appearance of the Body, that the Deced had reced any hurt to<lb></lb>
cause her Death and Says that the Deced appeared to have lain<lb></lb>
a considerable time in the Water, the Body being in a State of<lb></lb>
Putrefaction</p>
<p n="846">J Jackson</p>
<p n="847"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n847-1">Thomas Exton</rs>
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of Knightsbridge <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ231">Butcher</rs>
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on his Oath saith, That<lb></lb>
he was walking an <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo668">Hyde Park</rs>
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near the Head of the Serpentine<lb></lb>
River, Yesterday about four o' Clock in the Afternoon when he saw<lb></lb>
the back part of the Deced's Head in the River about Seven Yards<lb></lb>
form the Shore, but was not at first sure what it was, Says that he<lb></lb>
threw some Stones into the River one of which a lighted upon the<lb></lb>
Deced's Head, which he was convinced that ie was a dead Body, Says that he<lb></lb>
called a Person who had been Bathing in the River (whose Name is <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n847-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Hughson</rs>
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) who came there, and took off his Shoes & Stockings and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
up his Breeches Knees, and then went into the River Says that with a<lb></lb>
Lamp lighter's Ladder which he had in his Names the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Differently moved the Body of the Deced who lay in the Water with her force<lb></lb>
downwards, and pulled her to the Shore in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo669">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced appeared to have lain some time in the Water, her<lb></lb>
Lips being Swelled, and that She bled at the Mouth, Which Dept. believe was<lb></lb>
occasioned by her being rubbed with the Ladder, and saw Says that he observed<lb></lb>
no other Mark of violence upon the Deced. Says that the Deced's<lb></lb>
Pockets were Searched in Depts. presence by <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n847-4">Wm Hughson</rs>
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when he found therein a<lb></lb>
Thimble, Pincushing and a fit of Ribbon, but no Money.</p>
<p n="848"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n848-1">Thomas Exton</rs>
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</p>
<p n="849">Severally Sworn the Day Year &<lb></lb>
Place abovementioned, before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n849-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ232">Coroner</rs>
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