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<p n="304"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo330">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo331">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="305">Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date65">Twenty first day<lb></lb>
of February 1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo332">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo333">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n305-1">John Smith</rs>
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lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="306"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n306-1">William Dowse</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo334">Tower Street</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo335">St. Gyles in the Fields</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ93">Officer of Excise</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith, That on Monday the fourteenth day of<lb></lb>
February instant he went by the desire of Mr.<lb></lb>
Hunter to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo336">St. George's Hospital</rs>
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to make the will of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n306-2">John Smith</rs>
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the Deced whom he found in the Hospital<lb></lb>
very Sensible Says that he asked the Deced how<lb></lb>
the Accident happened to him to which Deced<lb></lb>
Answered that he was knocked down by a Horse going<lb></lb>
along the Road at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo337">Pimlico</rs>
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, and that a Cart wheel<lb></lb>
had gone over both his Thighs and broke them<lb></lb>
but Dept. says that the Deced did not charge<lb></lb>
the Carter or the Man riding the Horse, with<lb></lb>
having done it willingly, but Deced said that it<lb></lb>
was a bad Accident, but that he hoped to<lb></lb>
recover.</p>
<p n="307"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n307-1">Wm. Dowse</rs>
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</p>
<p n="308"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n308-1">Thomas Hunter</rs>
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of Cook's Court Carey Street Gent<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That the Deced was to come<lb></lb>
from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo338">Chelsea </rs>
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(where he lived) to Deponents House<lb></lb>
on Wednesday the Ninth Instant, says that<lb></lb>
about two o'Clock that afternoon Mr. Knight an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ94">Apothecary</rs>
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came to Depts. House and informed<lb></lb>
him that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n308-2">John Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65214_n308-2" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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the Deced was going towards<lb></lb>
Depont. House that Morning, and in endeavouring<lb></lb>
to avoid the Guard, was going to cross the Road at<lb></lb>
Pimlico, that a Butchers Boy rode against the<lb></lb>
Deced</p>
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