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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo132">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="156">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo133">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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, within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate<lb></lb>
Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo134">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo135">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date33">Twenty sixth day of February</rs>
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in the Third<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third 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="WACWIC65203_n156-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman, Coroner of our<lb></lb>
said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-2">Katherine Fortescue</rs>
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an Infant<lb></lb>
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-3">John Corne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-4">Nicholas Welch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-5">Peter Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-6">John Keats</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-7">Thomas Hedges</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-8">Michael Player</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-9">Alexander Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-10">John Ladyman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-11">Robert Page</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-12">William Clare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-77">Gerard Van der Gucht</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-13">James Sedgwick</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and<lb></lb>
charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-14">Katherine<lb></lb>
Fortescue</rs>
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, came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the twenty fourth day of February<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, the said<lb></lb>
Katherine Fortescue the Infant being with other Children gathering and Picking up sticks<lb></lb>
by the River side in a certain Place called Abery Farm near unto <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo136">Chelsea Bridge</rs>
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, in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County, it so happened that the said Katherine Fortescue then and<lb></lb>
there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and in the Waters<lb></lb>
thereof was then and there Drowned and Suffocated, of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-15">Katherine Fortescue</rs>
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and there Died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-16">Katherine Fortescue</rs>
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in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune came to her Death, and not<lb></lb>
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n156-17">John Corne</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first<lb></lb>
above written</p>
<p n="157"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n157-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="158"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n158-45">Jno Corns</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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