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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1755">Saint Luke</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date278">Twenty fifth Day of April in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, Robert Laxton John<lb></lb>
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Lacey</rs>
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Junior, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-17">Isaac Chapman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-19">Thomas Henly</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-25">Charles Ashmore</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-26">John Foot</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-27">John Foot</rs>
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on the Twenty second Day<lb></lb>
of April in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Thirteen Months or<lb></lb>
thereabouts And being laid to Sleep on a Bed in a certain Burcan Bedstead then and there being<lb></lb>
in a Room called the club Room in the Dwelling House of his Father James Foot situate in the Parish<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid And <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-28">Agna Scott</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ384">Servant</rs>
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of the said James Foot<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
(alhough she<lb></lb>
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had Put the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-29">John Foot</rs>
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into the said Bedstead) not Recollecting that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-30">John Foot</rs>
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the Infant was then<lb></lb>
and there a sleep or lying in the said Bedstead It so happened That the said Agna<lb></lb>
Scott accidentally, casually and by Misfortune then and there innocently turned<lb></lb>
up the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Bedstead By Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-31">John Foot</rs>
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the Infant in the<lb></lb>
Cloaths of the said Bed was then and there suffocated and smothered of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Smothering he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1685-32">John Foot</rs>
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then and there died And<lb></lb>
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John<lb></lb>
Foot in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune Came to his Death</p>
<p n="1686"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1686-1">William Hunter</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1687"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1687-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<p n="1688">Willm HunterForeman</p>
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