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<p n="1273"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1269">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1270">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="WACWIC65214_geo1271">Saint John the Evangelist</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_geo1272">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1273">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date254">Nineteenth day of September</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_n1273-1">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_n1273-2">Edmund Smith</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-3">Abraham<lb></lb>
Appleton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-4">Samuel brook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-5">Thomas Blackmore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-6">Henry Pitkin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-7">Francis Batchelor</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-8">Charles Inderwick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-9">John Hansell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-10">Thomas Lee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-11">Richard Bunney</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-12">James Wood</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-13">John Price</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-14">Matthew Lovejoy</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_n1273-15">Edmund Smith</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-16">Edmund Smith</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
Sixteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid (in the Night time)<lb></lb>
being in the Garden of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-17">Thomas Hodges</rs>
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situate upon <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1274">Mill Bank</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
and being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-18">Edmund Smith</rs>
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then and there Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune fell into a certain Well in the Garden of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-19">Thomas Hodges</rs>
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, and in the Water in the said Well was then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-20">Edmund Smith</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-21">Edmund<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1273-22">Abraham Appleton</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 Years and Place<lb></lb>
first above written</p>
<p n="1274"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1274-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ407">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1274-56">Abram. Appleton</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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