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<p n="723"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo608">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo609">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="WACWIC65212_geo610">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo611">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date127">Eighteenth 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_n723-1">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="WACWIC65212_n723-2">Robert Murray</rs>
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an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-3">David<lb></lb>
Woodley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-4">George Franklin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-5">William Poole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-6">Richard Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-7">John Leeson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-8">William Spinny</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-9">Thomas Gladwin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-10">Richard Porter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-11">John Hales</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-48">Lewis Sulsh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-12">William Atwood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-13">John Wilson</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="WACWIC65212_n723-14">Robert Murray</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-15">Robert Murray</rs>
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the Infant, on<lb></lb>
the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, being at play with two<lb></lb>
of his Brothers in the Backyard and Workshop of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-16">William Murray</rs>
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Father<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-17">Robert Murray</rs>
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, situate in the Broadway in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And part of the Floor of the Necessary-<lb></lb>
House or Privy in the said backyard, having been taken up in order to its<lb></lb>
being that Night Emptied, It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-18">Robert Murray</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, fell down through the Floor<lb></lb>
into the said Necessary House or Privy, and in the Soil or Ordure therein<lb></lb>
contained, was then and there Suffocated and Strangled, of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-19">Robert Murray</rs>
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when and there<lb></lb>
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-20">Robert Murray</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n723-21">David Woodley</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
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="724"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n724-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ205">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n724-2">David Woodley</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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