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<p n="404"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo426">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo427">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo428">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo429">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of<lb></lb>
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo430">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo431">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty<lb></lb>
-seventh day of March in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by<lb></lb>
the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so<lb></lb>
forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-18">John Bouchereau</rs>
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then and there lying Dead, upon the<lb></lb>
Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-2">Henry Allibone</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-3">James Sinclair</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-4">John Abbott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-5">Jeremiah Beaver</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-19">Francis<lb></lb>
Bursill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-6">John Gilliam</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-7">Robert Potter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-8">Robert Laws</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-9">Thomas Gooch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-10">John Simpson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-11">Thomas Withers</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-12">William Rumridgegood</rs>
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and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen<lb></lb>
who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King when<lb></lb>
how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-13">John Bouchereau</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their<lb></lb>
Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-14">John Bouchereau</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory, and Understanding,<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid, into the<lb></lb>
Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo432">Hyde Park</rs>
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, in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, did cast and throw himself, by Means of which said Casting and Throwing, he<lb></lb>
the said John Boachereau in the Waters of the said River was Suffocated and Drowned,<lb></lb>
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-15">John Bouchereau</rs>
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died the same day<lb></lb>
in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-16">John Bouchereau</rs>
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, in manner and by the Means aforesaid,<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, did drown<lb></lb>
and kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n404-17">Henry<lb></lb>
Allibone</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, that Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place first above written</p>
<p n="405"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n405-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ164">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="406"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n406-1">Henry Allibone</rs>
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