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<p n="466"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo426">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo427">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit. </note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo428">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo429">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo430">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date85">Ninteenth day of April</rs>
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in the Eight Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the king for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-2">Joseph Smith</rs>
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an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Turner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-4">Robert Minnitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-99">Mark Last</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-5">George Martin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-6">John Baker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-7">Edward<lb></lb>
Woodcock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-8">Martin Waddington</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-9">Joseph Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-88">Thomas Blainey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-10">George<lb></lb>
Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-77">William Singler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-66">Edward Jay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-11">Nathaniel Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-55">James Elley</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-12">Joseph Frankland</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-13">John Mullins</rs>
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-14">Joseph Smith</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-69">Mary Hyndes</rs>
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late of the Parish aforesaid,<lb></lb>
not having the Fear of Good before her Eyes, but moved and seduced by the Instigation of<lb></lb>
the Devil, on the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, with force and Arms,<lb></lb>
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-15">Joseph Smith</rs>
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the Insant in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the king, then and<lb></lb>
there being, feloniously willfully and of her Malicc forethought did make an Assault,<lb></lb>
And that the said Mary Hyndes him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-16">Joseph smith</rs>
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the Infant did then and<lb></lb>
there take into both her Hands, and him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-17">Joseph smith</rs>
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into the River then<lb></lb>
and there being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo431">Hyde Park</rs>
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, in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, then and there feloniously willfully and of her malic forethought<lb></lb>
did violently cast and throw; by Means where of he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-18">Joseph Smith</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned; of<lb></lb>
which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-19">Joseph Smith</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,<lb></lb>
that the said Mary Hyndes him the siad <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-20">Joseph Smith</rs>
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the first in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of her Malic forethought<lb></lb>
did kill and Murder, against the Peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown<lb></lb>
and Dignity. And that the said Mary Hyndes at the time of committing the<lb></lb>
Felony and Murder aforesaid, had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements<lb></lb>
within the said County or elsewhere to the Knowledge or Notice of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n466-21">Thomas Turner</rs>
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foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="467"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n467-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ143">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n467-89">Tho: Turner</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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