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<p n="893"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo757">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo758">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo759">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="WACWIC65213_geo760">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date158">Eighth day of June</rs>
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in the Thirteenth 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="WACWIC65213_n893-1">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="WACWIC65213_n893-2">William Davidson</rs>
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then and there laying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-3">Thomas Lamb</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-4">Joseph Allen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-5">Thomas Scott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-6">George Eyre</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-7">Robert Perryman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-8">Richard<lb></lb>
Sherlock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-9">George Worthy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-10">Edward Deacon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-11">Thomas Spencer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-26">William Bussy</rs>
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; <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-12">William<lb></lb>
Ketley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-41">Frederick Duperray</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-13">John Burgess</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="WACWIC65213_n893-14">William Davidson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-15">William Davidson</rs>
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a Laborer on<lb></lb>
the Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid being at Work with<lb></lb>
and standing near unto <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-16">Robert Young</rs>
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a Pavior in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo761">Newtoner's Lane</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo762">St. Gyles</rs>
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in the County aforesaid, And the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-17">Robert Young</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being then and there with a Sledge Hammer breaking a certain large Stone<lb></lb>
for the purpose of Paving therewith, It so happened, that, Casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune and against the Will of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-18">Robert Young</rs>
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, a piece of the<lb></lb>
said Stone flew against the Right Eye of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-19">William Davidson</rs>
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, by<lb></lb>
Means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-20">William Davidson</rs>
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then and there received a mortal Wound<lb></lb>
in and upon his Right Eye, of which said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-21">William<lb></lb>
Davidson</rs>
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from the said Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid until<lb></lb>
the Sixth day of June in the same year, at the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo763">St. Margaret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did<lb></lb>
live, on which said Sixth day of June in the year aforesaid, he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-22">William Davidson</rs>
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at the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty <lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, of the mortal Wound aforesaid, Casually by Misfortune<lb></lb>
and against the will of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-23">Robert Young</rs>
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, came to his death, and not<lb></lb>
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n893-24">Thomas Lamb</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
first above written</p>
<p n="894"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n894-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ213">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="895"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n895-48">Thos. Lamb</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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