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<p n="1004"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo914">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo915">County of<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65209_geo916">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo917">Westminster</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo918">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo919">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65209_date187">Thirtieth day of June</rs>
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in the Ninth 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="WACWIC65209_n1004-1">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="WACWIC65209_n1004-26">Thomas Spurrett</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-2">William<lb></lb>
Rankin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-3">John Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-4">Henry Callis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-5">Willam Bagwell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-6">James Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-7">Edward <lb></lb>
Evans</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-8">William Thompson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-9">Richard Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-10">John Edwards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-11">Abraham Wilkinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-12">Clement Scott</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-13">John Gritton</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 Thomas Spurrett came to <lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said Thomas Spurrett an Infant<lb></lb>
on the Twenty fifth day of June in the Year aforesaid being with two<lb></lb>
other Boys in a Boat upon the River Thomas in a Place called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo920">Mill-<lb></lb>
Bank</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and the said Thomas Spurrett having last hole of the Oar with which he<lb></lb>
was Rowing, and endeavouring to recover it, It so happened that the said<lb></lb>
Thomas Spurrett did then and there Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune fall out of the said Boat into the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo921">River Thames</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
in the Waters thereof was then and there Suffocated and Drowned<lb></lb>
of which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said Thomas Spurrett<lb></lb>
then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said Thomas Spurrett Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune <lb></lb>
came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1004-14">William Rankin</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows in their Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place First above written</p>
<p n="1005"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1005-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65209_occ267">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1006"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1006-1">William Rankin</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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