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<p n="1616"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1264">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1265">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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<p n="1617">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1266">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="WACWIC65213_geo1267">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1268">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date313">Sixth day of August</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_n1617-1">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_n1617-2">Charles Stapleton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-3">William Ovens</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-4">Timothy Quin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-5">William Chandler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-88">Henry Elvey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-77">James Payn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-66">James Simer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-55">George Dibbs</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-6">John Burch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-7">John Dawkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-44">Ezakiel Elliot</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-33">Richard Kemmery</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-8">George Burt</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-22">Mark<lb></lb>
Last</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_n1617-9">Charles Stapleton</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_n1617-10">Charles Stapleton</rs>
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on the fifth day <lb></lb>
of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid <lb></lb>
to wit at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1269">Hyde Park</rs>
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going into the Serpentine River there to Bath himself, it so<lb></lb>
happened that accidentally casually by Misfortune he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-11">Charles Stapleton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was in the Waters of the said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-12">Charles Stapleton</rs>
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then and there instantly<lb></lb>
Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1617-13">Charles Stapleton</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well <lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and <lb></lb>
the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the <lb></lb>
Day Year and at the Place first abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1618"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1618-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ377">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1618-2">William Ovens</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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