Middlesex
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An Inquisition indented Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Dwelling House of John Mergic< no role > , known by the
Sign of the Wheatsheaf in the Parish of Saint Mary Abbott< no role > Kensington in the County of Middlesex on Thursday
the Twenty Secondday of Junein the Twenty SixthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by
the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County on View of the Body of Thomas Barnes< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Rogers< no role > , Matthew Hinson< no role > William Booth< no role > , Andrew Burgess< no role > John Gayles< no role >
John Krimpton< no role > George Bland< no role > Edward Lewis< no role > John Roots< no role > George Hubbard< no role > , John Edwards< no role > John Burrows< no role > James Perry< no role > Samuel
Kingston, Andrew Natt< no role > , Richard David< no role > Samuel Barrett< no role >

good and lawfull men of the said County duly chosen and who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our
said Lord the King, when how and by what means the said Thomas Barnes< no role > came to his
Death do pon their Oath say That the said Thomas Barnes< no role > on the Twenty first day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in
to County aforesaid being Employed as a Labourer to Assist in Emptying the Seal [..] a Certain Privy Adjoining and belonging to the Workhouse of the
said Parish and being Within the Well of the said Privy It so happened that the Stench and Smell arising from the said Soil in the said Privy then and
there Over powered these [..] of the said Thomas Barnes< no role > whereby the said Thomas Barnes< no role > was then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
Suffocated and Smothered of which said Suffocation and Smothering he the said Thomas Barnes< no role > then and there Instantly Died And so the Jurors
Aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Barnes< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune Came to his Death And not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Rogers< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their presence have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and place first above Written.

Wm Rogers [mark] Foreman< no role >