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<p n="1709"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City & Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1607">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1608">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1609">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter<lb></lb>
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1610">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1611">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty-<lb></lb>
second day of September in the Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the<lb></lb>
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth<lb></lb>
before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and<lb></lb>
Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-2">William Betts</rs>
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, then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-3">Christopher<lb></lb>
Sadler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-4">James Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-5">Thomas Wright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-6">John Reeves</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-7">Henry Knight</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-8">Charles Rogers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-9">James Eyres</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-10">Samuel Steward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-11">Charles Harrison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-12">Richard Cripps</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-13">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-14">Joseph Poynton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-15">James <lb></lb>
Duke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-16">Ephraim Brooks</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-17">Alexander Hay</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly<lb></lb>
chosen 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="WACWIC65206_n1709-18">William Betts</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath<lb></lb>
say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-19">William Betts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-20">William Betts</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, on the Twentieth day of September in the Year aforesaid, into the<lb></lb>
Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1612">Hyde Park</rs>
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, in the Parish of St. Margaret, within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid did cast and throw himself by Means of which said Casting and<lb></lb>
Throwing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-21">William Betts</rs>
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in the Waters of the said River was then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-22">William<lb></lb>
Betts</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-23">William Betts</rs>
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, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, did drown and<lb></lb>
kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1709-24">Christopher<lb></lb>
Sadler</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself, and the rest of his said Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place first above written</p>
<p n="1710"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1710-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ530">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1711">Christ Sadler Foreman</p>
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