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(To wit.)}
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AN INQUISITION Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
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of Samuel Mary
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in the County of
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, the Twenty second Day of
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Twenty first Year of the Reign of
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Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, of the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
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, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John Finch
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Joseph Hughes
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John Leggett
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Williams,
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Lloyd
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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Richard Cowell
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on the Twentieth Day
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of August in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Nine years or thereabouts
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and being in a certain Field called Prichards Field situate in the Parish of Saint
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in the said County It so happened That a certain White Horse
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which was in the said Field then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
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struck the said
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with his hinder Feet and did then and there give unto
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him the said
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one Mortal Bruise in and upon the Left Side of him
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the said
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at the Parish of
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aforesaid and also at the Parish of Saint
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in the County aforesaid to Wit in a certain
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Hospital there situate called The
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One Hour
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aforesaid And so the
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Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came
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to his Death And That the said White Horse was the Cause of the Death of the said
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and is of the Price of Twenty Shillings and the Property and in the
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Possession of
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of the Parish of Saint Mathew
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Bethnall Green
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in the said County Tile Maker
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of his Assigns
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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John Finch
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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Foreman
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