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<p n="496"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo411">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo412">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date86">Twenty first<lb></lb>
day of March 1772</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo413">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo414">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the Death<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n496-1">Elizabeth Blockley</rs>
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lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="497"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n497-1">Richard Moors</rs>
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Butler to the Right Honoble the Earl of<lb></lb>
Waldegrave in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo415">Whitehall</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo416">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. on his Oath saith That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n497-2">Elizabeth Blockley</rs>
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the Deced<lb></lb>
was <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ145">Nursery Maid</rs>
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to Lord Waldegrave and had lived there<lb></lb>
upwards of two Years & an half, Says that he saw the Deced<lb></lb>
in Lord Waldegrave's House sometime on Thursday Morning<lb></lb>
last (March 19.) Says that about Ten o'Clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening of that day Dept. being with the other Servants<lb></lb>
in the Servants Hall, when the Servant wandered where<lb></lb>
the Deced could be saying that she had not been at Dinner<lb></lb>
or at Tea with them That she had not been soon to go out,<lb></lb>
and that her Hat & Cloak were above Stairs, Dept.<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n497-5">Thomas Burton</rs>
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a Footman went into several Rooms in the House to look for her<lb></lb>
and at last in a Room called the Lumber Room two<lb></lb>
Pair of Stairs Dept. found the Deced hanging behind the<lb></lb>
Door, by a small Cord which was fastened to a Nail<lb></lb>
drove into a Wooden Beam and fastened about the<lb></lb>
Deced's Neck, Says that he called Burton saying here<lb></lb>
she is, and immediately Dept. and Burton come down<lb></lb>
Stairs, and acquainted the Family therewith, Says that<lb></lb>
the Deced appeared to be dead, and Dept. believes that she<lb></lb>
Hanged herself, Says that the Deced for about a Week<lb></lb>
before her Death appeared to be very Dull & Heavy<lb></lb>
and spoke very little, but never assigned any Cause for<lb></lb>
her being so in Depts. hearing</p>
<p n="498"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n498-1">Richard Moors</rs>
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<p n="499"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n499-1">Thomas Burton</rs>
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Footman to the Earl of Waldegrave<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That he saw the Deced last Thursday<lb></lb>
in the Forenoon at Lord Waldegrave's, That in the<lb></lb>
Evening he was with the other Servants in the Servants<lb></lb>
Hall, who wondered where the Deced could be, saying<lb></lb>
that she never used to stay out so late, That her Hat &<lb></lb>
Cloak</p>
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