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<p n="1567"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1333">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1334">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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<p n="1568"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1335">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1336">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1337">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date287">Twentieth day of July</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_n1568-1">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_n1568-2">Francis Jennings</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-3">John Salt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-4">John<lb></lb>
Flemming</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-5">Benjamin Curtis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-6">John Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-99">John Ballesett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-88">John Apprese</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-7">John Orton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-8">William<lb></lb>
Nichols</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-9">Jonathan Billings</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-77">John Kington</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-66">Edward Gilliam</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-55">Thomas Bottlesby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-44">Leonard<lb></lb>
Rotteram</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-10">James Barnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-11">Nicholas Salterille</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-12">John Smith</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-13">James Johnson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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_n1568-14">Francis Jennings</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say<lb></lb>
That the said Francis Jennnings on the Nineteenth<lb></lb>
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid (to wit)<lb></lb>
at a certain Bridge near to Chelsea Water Works, being standing on the top of the Railing<lb></lb>
of the said Bridge and being intoxicated with Liquor, it so happened that Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by misfortune he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-15">Francis Jennings</rs>
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fell from the Top of the Railing<lb></lb>
of the said Bridge into the Waters running under the Said Bridge and in the said Waters was<lb></lb>
then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-16">Francis Jennings</rs>
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then and there instantly Died. And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1568-17">Francis Jennings</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. In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner at the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the<lb></lb>
place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1569"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1569-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ436">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1569-2">John Salt</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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