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<p n="1641"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1596">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1597">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1598">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the<lb></lb>
Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1599">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1600">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date319">Twenty ninth day of December</rs>
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in the Ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the<lb></lb>
Grace of god of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, On View of the Body<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-2">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-3">John Cropley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-4">John Boon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-5">Thomas Bannister</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-6">Richard Cole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-7">John George</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-8">William Orton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-9">Thomas Towers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-10">James<lb></lb>
Giffard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-11">George Howson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-58">Peter Bridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-12">William Otridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-13">Thomas Morgan</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-14">William Hyde</rs>
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good 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, how, and by what<lb></lb>
Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-15">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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came to his Death do upon their Oath say That<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-16">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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on the Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid, being in Liquor<lb></lb>
and walking along <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1601">Dover Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1602">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-17">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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did then and there Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune fall down upon certain Stone Steps leading into an Area in the Front of<lb></lb>
and belonging to a Dwelling House situate in the said Street, (the Iron Gate of the said Area being<lb></lb>
open) by Means of which said fall he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-18">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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then and there received a<lb></lb>
violent Concussion in and upon the Brain, of which said violent Concussion he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-19">Andrew<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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from the said Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of<lb></lb>
the same Month in the same Year, at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1603">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth<lb></lb>
day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1604">St. George's Hospital</rs>
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there, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-20">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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of the violent Concussion aforesaid, did die<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-21">Andrew Thomas</rs>
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in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune, came to his Death, and<lb></lb>
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1641-22">John Cropley</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
first above written</p>
<p n="1642"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1642-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1643">Cropley<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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