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Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain
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France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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our said Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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John Crook
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Thomas Hutchison
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Thomas Webb
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Henry Stevens
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William Morris
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good and lawful
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Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire
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for our said Lord the King, when how and by what means the said
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Matthias Molineux
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came to his
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Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Matthew Molineux an Infant of the Age of Nine Years on the
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fourteenth of April in the Year aforesaid was playing in a certain Ground, railed in, belonging and adjoining to the
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dwelling House of
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Edward Molineux
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his Father situate in the Parish and Liberty aforesaid wherein was a certain Window
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appertaining to a Cellar there, thr'o which Tallow and other Necessaries were conveyed into the said Cellar, And that it so
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happened as the said
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was in such play drawing a Cart and walking backwards,(the Window of the
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said Cellar being open and the said
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not knowing thereof) he the said Matthias Molineux then and
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there accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell through the said Window upon the Floor of the same Cellar, And by means
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of such falling did then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune receive one Mortal Fracture upon
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the Scull of him the said
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above the left Eye of him the said Matthias Molineux, Of which Mortal Fracture
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he the said
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from the said fourteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid until the Nineteenth day of April in the same
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Year did languish and languishing did live, On which last mentioned Day and Year the said Matthias Molineux, of the said Mortal
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Fracture at the Parish and Liberty aforesaid did Dye. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Dauglas foreman,
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year
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and Place above mentioned
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Coroner
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Jno Douglas
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