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<p n="155"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo150">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo151">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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<p n="156"> An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo152">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="WACWIC65214_geo153">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo154">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date32">Seventh day of February</rs>
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in the Fourteenth 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="WACWIC65214_n156-1">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="WACWIC65214_n156-2">Edward Miller</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-3">John<lb></lb>
Dixon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-4">Thomas Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-5">Thomas Honour</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-6">Cuthbert Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-77">Thomas Riseing</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-7">Rees Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-8">Richard English</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-9">Stephen Preston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-10">James Mc Cartney</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-11">Henry<lb></lb>
Hassell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-12">William Deane</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-25">George Lyddell</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="WACWIC65214_n156-13">Edward Miller</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-14">Edward Miller</rs>
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on the Sixth<lb></lb>
day of February in the Year aforesaid, being Shaiting upon a certain<lb></lb>
Pond by the said of the Kings Road near <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo155">Bloody Bridge</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened<lb></lb>
that the Ice broke under the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-15">Edward Miller</rs>
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, and that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-16">Edward Miller</rs>
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then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
fell into the said Pond, and in the Waters thereof was then and<lb></lb>
there suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-17">Edward Miller</rs>
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than and there died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-18">Edward Miller</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
Accidentally Casully and by Misfortune came to his death,<lb></lb>
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n156-19">John Dixon</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="157"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n157-45">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ45">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="158"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n158-1">John Dixon</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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