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<p n="679"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo562">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo563">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="WACWIC65212_geo564">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo565">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo566">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date119">Thirteenth day of April</rs>
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in the Twelfth 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="WACWIC65212_n679-1">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>
a Man whose Name is unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-2">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Cann</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-3">Arthur Watkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-77">John Baucut</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-4">James Aldridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-5">Robert Broom</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-6">Thomas Horne</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-7">Thomas Acomb</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-8">William Chambers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-55">Edward Widder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-9">William Chandler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-10">Charles<lb></lb>
Hamilton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-33">Ralph Coughlan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-11">John Hinton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-12">David Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-13">William Stag</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-14">Clement Watts</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-15">John March</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-16">William Lambe</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 Man unknown came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Man unknown on the<lb></lb>
Eighth day of April in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and<lb></lb>
Suffocated in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo567">River Thames</rs>
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, in a certain place called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo568">Mill Bank</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
That no Marks of violence appeared on the Body of the said Man<lb></lb>
unknown, but how or by what Means he became Drowned, no<lb></lb>
Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n679-17">Benjamin Cann</rs>
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Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first abovewritten</p>
<p n="680"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n680-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n680-45">Benjn. Cann</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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