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<p n="1082"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo992">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo993">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 Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo994">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo995">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo996">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65209_date205">fifth day of August</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_n1082-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65209_occ289">Gentleman</rs>
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, <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_n1082-2">Dennis Norton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-77">Thomas Core</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-66">Henry Spensley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-3">Thomas Butcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-55">John Grasby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-4">William Storey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-44">William Solby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-363">Richard Morris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-5">Daniel<lb></lb>
Bulfield</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-6">Thomas Webb</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-33">John Poultney</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-22">Richard Constant</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-7">Joseph Leger</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-8">John Grosvenor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-64">Francis Sersey</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-34">Philip Mitchel</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="WACWIC65209_n1082-9">Dennis Norton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1082-37">Thomas Core</rs>
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came to <lb></lb>
their Death, do upon their Oath Say,</p>
<p n="1083">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1083-1">Dennis Norton</rs>
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and Thomas Core on<lb></lb>
the Fourth day of August in the year aforesaid at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65209_geo997">Parish of St Mary lebone</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the County aforesaid (to wit) at a certain Pond or peice of Water near Postman Square <lb></lb>
going into the said Water there to Bathe themselves it so happened that accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by Misfortune they the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1083-2">Dennis Norton</rs>
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and Thomas Cord were in<lb></lb>
the said Waters then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning they the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1083-3">Dennis Norton</rs>
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and Thomas Core then and there instantly Dead<lb></lb>
And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1083-4">Dennis<lb></lb>
Norton</rs>
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and Thomas Core in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally <lb></lb>
casually and by Misfortune came to their Deaths and not otherwise. In<lb></lb>
Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals the day and Year first above written.</p>
<p n="1084"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1084-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65209_occ290">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1085"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65209_n1085-1">Henry Spenceley</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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