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<p n="2079"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1649">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1650">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2080">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date412">Second day of<lb></lb>
November 1773</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1651">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1652">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2080-1">William Rampton</rs>
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lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="2081"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2081-1">John Franks</rs>
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of little George Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1653">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Chairman on his Oath saith That on Friday last in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon Dept. being in Brook Street saw Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2081-3">Charles<lb></lb>
Meadow</rs>
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's Servant and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2081-4">William Rampton</rs>
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the Deced who was she Servant to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2081-5">Philip Meadows</rs>
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Esqr. in a<lb></lb>
Hackney Coach going towards Mr. Meadows' s House in<del>Brook</del>
Davied Street<lb></lb>
Says that he soon after followed them to Mr. Meadow's House<lb></lb>
where he saw the Deced sitting in a Chair in the Hall<lb></lb>
very low Spirited, and could searce speak, having a<lb></lb>
great deal of Blood upon his Cloaths, Says that he was<lb></lb>
desired to get a Nurse for the Deced, That he got no Nurse<lb></lb>
but sat up with the Deced himself, and attended him<lb></lb>
ever since until this Morning about a Quarter after<lb></lb>
Eight o'Clock, when the Deced desired Dept. to take his<lb></lb>
Wig to the Barber to be Dressed, and to bring the Barber<lb></lb>
there to Shave him, Says that he Went leaving the<lb></lb>
Deced in his Room along being a Coachman) over the Coach Saw<lb></lb>
of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2081-6">Philip Meadows</rs>
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in David Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1654">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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Westmr. Says that he returned<lb></lb>
in about ten Minutes or a little more, with the<lb></lb>
Barber, and found the Coach house Door fastened,<lb></lb>
(which he had left open) upon which he rung at the<lb></lb>
Street Door Bell and was let in, and immediately went<lb></lb>
into the Deced's Room and not finding him there<lb></lb>
he came down and looking about saw the Deced Hanging by a<lb></lb>
Cord which was fastened to an Iron Hosp of the<lb></lb>
Coach house Door and about his Neck with a running<lb></lb>
Knot being on the inside of the Coach house Door with<lb></lb>
his Backside very near the Ground. Says that he lifted<lb></lb>
the Deced up and that the Barber cut the Cord by which he was Hanging</p>
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