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Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo398">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date76">First day of March<lb></lb>
1774</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo399">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo400">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon an Inquisition touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n356-99">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Mobbes</rs>
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lying dying in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="357"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n357-1">George Mobbes</rs>
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a Lodger at Mr. Beaver in Down<lb></lb>
Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo401">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith That Elizabeth Mobbes the Deced was wife<lb></lb>
to this Dept. That he went home off his Watch, (Dept<lb></lb>
being a Watchman of said Parish) yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning about six o'Clock and found the Deced<lb></lb>
in Bed in his Lodgings, Says that the Deced lay<lb></lb>
in Bed until about Seven o'Clock when Deced<lb></lb>
got up, saying that she must Iron some Linnen<lb></lb>
which she had washed for Mr. Hazard in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo402">the Strand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and Deced said that she must go to get some<lb></lb>
Sticks to light her Fire and Deced immediately<lb></lb>
went down Stairs and did not return Says that<lb></lb>
about Eight o'Clock a Boy came to Dept. and told him<lb></lb>
that he heard that Mrs. Mobbes was Drowned in the<lb></lb>
Serpentine River in Hyde Park, upon which Dept. and<lb></lb>
his Daughter went into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo403">Hyde Park</rs>
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, and was there<lb></lb>
informed that the Deced had been taken out of the<lb></lb>
River and was carried to the Bowhouse of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo404">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George Hanr Square</rs>
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, where Dept. saw the Body of<lb></lb>
the Deced, but observed no Marks of violence upon<lb></lb>
the Deced, Says that he believes that the Deced went<lb></lb>
from home into the Park to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Drown herself<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced last Summer went into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo405">Hyde<lb></lb>
Park</rs>
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and almost to the Serpentine River when Dept.<lb></lb>
overtook her, and brought her back, and that Deced<lb></lb>
then told Dept. that she would have drowned herself<lb></lb>
if he had not prevented her says that the Deced<lb></lb>
was much addicted to Drinking and was often in Liquor</p>
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