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<p n="1418"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1135">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1136">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="WACWIC65213_geo1137">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_geo1138">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date262">Twenty eighth day of July</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_n1418-1">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_n1418-2">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-99">Walter Tyrrell</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-88">Isaac Bunton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-77">Samuel Jordon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-3">Miles Wells</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-66">John Keath</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-4">John Hudson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-5">Charles Forward</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-6">Robert Parker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-7">John Dunford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-55">John Champling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-8">James Lawford</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-9">Hugh Payne</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="WACWIC65213_n1418-10">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Eleanor Tomkins on the Twenty Seventh<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 Place there called George and Plough Yard being much intoxicated with Liquor<lb></lb>
it so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-11">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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by<lb></lb>
reason and means of such intoxication was then and there choaked suffocated and strangled<lb></lb>
of which said Choaking suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-12">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1418-13">Eleanor Tomkins</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally causally and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
Said Coroner as 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<lb></lb>
the Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1419"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1419-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ341">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1420">Walter TyrrellForeman</p>
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