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<p n="740"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo749">Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken upon<lb></lb>
Oath this 26th. day of April 1788, at the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of Mr. Bryan the Sign of<lb></lb>
the White Sworn in Upper Normal Street in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo750">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo751">Hanover Square</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n740-1">Thos. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ286">Gentleman</rs>
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His Majesty's Coroner, on View of<lb></lb>
the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n740-2">Joseph Harris</rs>
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there lying Dead</p>
<p n="741"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n741-1">William Bonnifant</rs>
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who lives near the Bason in Hyde that<lb></lb>
Collector for the Chelsea Water Company or his Oath says that<lb></lb>
Yesterday about 5 o'Clock in the Morning W. Mordaunt<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Taylor in Park and a Journeyman Carpenter called time up<lb></lb>
and said there was a Mans Hat floating in the Bason<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo752">Hyde Park</rs>
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and they supposed a Man Might be Drowned<lb></lb>
Deponent immediately got a Drag and Went and in about<lb></lb>
half on hour he brought the Body up the Dewareds hands<lb></lb>
were chenched togetherthere were form in his Pockets a<lb></lb>
Knife two Gimblets and a small Book in which Deponent<lb></lb>
saw nothing but about one for Sone Eyesthe Deceased appeard<lb></lb>
to be quite Dead, to that it was thought necessary to send<lb></lb>
for any Surgeon or other Medical <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ287">Gentleman</rs>
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to endeavour<lb></lb>
by the Methods usually taken to try restore Drowned<lb></lb>
person</p>
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