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<p n="193"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo204">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo205">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="194">Informations taken this Thirty first<lb></lb>
day of January 1776 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo206">St.<lb></lb>
Margaret within the 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="WACWIC65216_n194-1">John Hurst</rs>
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lying dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="195"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n195-1">William Jefferys</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ60">House Surgeon</rs>
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at the Westmr<lb></lb>
Hospital in the Parish of St. Margaret Wesmr in<lb></lb>
his Oath saith That on the Eleventh day of Decr.<lb></lb>
last <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n195-2">John Hust</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ61">Deced</rs>
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was brought to said Hospital<lb></lb>
having a wound in his Throat about one Inch<lb></lb>
and an half in breadth and about half an Inch<lb></lb>
in depth, the Windpipe being Divided which<lb></lb>
prevented his taking any Nourishment, the<lb></lb>
wound appearing to have been given by some<lb></lb>
cutting Instrument, Says that the Wound was<lb></lb>
Dressed and proper care taken of Deced in the<lb></lb>
Hospital, but Deced died about three o'Clock last<lb></lb>
Monday Morning January 29th. and Dept. believes<lb></lb>
the wound abovementioned to be the sole cause<lb></lb>
of his Death, Says that the Deced when he<lb></lb>
was brought to the Hospital looked wild and <lb></lb>
appeared to be Insane.</p>
<p n="196"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n196-1">William Jeffries</rs>
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<p n="197"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n197-1">Rachel Hurst</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ62">Widow</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n197-2">John Hurst</rs>
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the Deced on<lb></lb>
her Oath saith that on the Eleventh day of Decr last<lb></lb>
Dept. being with the Deced at their Lodgings at Mrs.<lb></lb>
Sellers In <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo207">Horse shoe Alley</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Margaret<lb></lb>
Westmr. when the Deced went to a Chost of Drowned<lb></lb>
took out his Razor, and with it gave himself a<lb></lb>
wound in his Throat says that she went to him<lb></lb>
and seeing the Razor at Deced's Throat she took hold of if<lb></lb>
and endeavouring to force it out of Deced's Stand, and<lb></lb>
broke the Razor in Struggling, and Deced bled very<lb></lb>
much from the wound in his Throat, and fell down<lb></lb>
upon the Floor, upon which Dept, called in some<lb></lb>
Neighbours, who lifted him up, and set him upon</p>
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