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<p n="2139"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2113">MIDDLESEX</rs>
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(To wit)} </note>
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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_geo2114">Saint John Wapping</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2115">Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date306">Fourteenth Day of June in the Twenty fifth 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_n2139-2">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>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-3">William Wallace</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-4">William Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-5">Thomas Coe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-6">Joseph Meers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-7">Griffin Boardman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-8">John Meers</rs>
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, Richard<lb></lb>
Nurse, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-9">George Pearce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-10">John Hebron</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-11">Mason Lisk</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-12">John Bell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-13">John Knox</rs>
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and William<lb></lb>
Harris<lb></lb>
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_n2139-14">William Wallace</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-15">William Wallace</rs>
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on the Eleventh Day of June<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Ten Years or thereabouts accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune fell<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2116">River Thames at Gun Dock</rs>
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in the Parish and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid And was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned<lb></lb>
Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2139-16">William Wallace</rs>
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then and there died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William<lb></lb>
Wallace<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<del>Understanding made Lunatic and distracted</del>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<del>did</del>
Accidentally, casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his Death</p>
<p n="2140"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2140-1">William Smith</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="2141"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2141-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ442">Coroner</rs>
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William Smith<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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