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<p n="235"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo282">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo283">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this<lb></lb>
Twenty second day of January 1784 at the Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n235-1">Edward Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ158">Esqr</rs>
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. lying dead in the<lb></lb>
said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="236"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n236-1">Thomas Watfard</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo284">Bull Alley</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo285">Parish of<lb></lb>
Christ</rs>
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Church Surry <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ159">Waterman</rs>
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on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That Yesterday Dept. was at the Serpentin River<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo286">Hyde Park</rs>
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letting out Skarts to Gentlemen<lb></lb>
who were Skaiting upon the Jee<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
upon the<lb></lb>
said River, Says that he heard several People<lb></lb>
crying out for help, and Deced saw the<lb></lb>
Deced Plunging in the Water and coming up<lb></lb>
two or three times. and then Sunk, Says<lb></lb>
that he got a small Boat and went to the<lb></lb>
Place where Deced was Drowned, and with<lb></lb>
a Hook pulled the Deced into the Boat and<lb></lb>
<del>oath</del>
brought him to the Shore in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo287">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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, Says that the Deced<lb></lb>
was carried to the Fox Alehouse at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo288">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo289">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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. where every<lb></lb>
Means were reced for his Revevery, without<lb></lb>
Effect, the Deced having been too long Drowned<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced had his Skits on when<lb></lb>
he was taken out of the Water and believes<lb></lb>
that the Deced was accidentally Drowned in<lb></lb>
Heating by the breaking of the<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="237">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n237-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="238"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n238-1">Thos.<obscured></obscured>
Watford</rs>
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