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<p n="1755"> <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date338">3d, August 1772</rs>
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Verdict of the Jury toucing the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1755-1">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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<p n="1756">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1756-1">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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on the first day of August<lb></lb>
1772 being at Work repairing the Filing in the Gutter of<lb></lb>
the Garretts of the Dwelling House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1756-2">James Carter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ486">Innkeeper</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1478">Sign of the George</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1479">Hedge Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1480">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1481">Westminster</rs>
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it so happened that he accidentally casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
fell from the said Gutter into the Street by means whereof<lb></lb>
he Received a Violent and Mortal Wound Fracture and<lb></lb>
Concussion on his Head and Beam; of which he than and<lb></lb>
there instantly Died. And so the Jurors on their Oath say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1756-3">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came<lb></lb>
to his Death and not otherwise. Witness the hand of<lb></lb>
the Foreman on behalf of himself and the rest of the<lb></lb>
Jurors this 3d, day of August 1772.</p>
<p n="1757"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1757-1">William Powell</rs>
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foreman</p>
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