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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo405">London</rs>
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is to say) at the parish of Saint Botolph <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo406">without Bishopsgate</rs>
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without <lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo408">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65012_date33">eighteenth day of March</rs>
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in the thirty ninth year of the <lb></lb>
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before <lb></lb>
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, George Clode,<lb></lb>
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, and Matthew Good enough,<lb></lb>
good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo411">City of London</rs>
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sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n400-18">Christiana Smith</rs>
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on the fifteenth day of March in the year aforesaid being going up<lb></lb>
certain Hairs in the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n400-20">Peter Binks</rs>
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situate in the parish and Ward<lb></lb>
aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo412">London</rs>
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aforesaid It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n400-21">Christiana Smith</rs>
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accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down the said stairs and did there stay<lb></lb>
then and there receive one mortal bruise and fracture in and upon her forehead<lb></lb>
of which said mortal bruise and fracture she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n400-22">Christiana Smith</rs>
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did then and there<lb></lb>
instantly dieand so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that <lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n400-23">Christiana Smith</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise.In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n400-24">James Frankland</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written</p>
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