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<p n="1443"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1528">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1529">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65216_geo1530">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1531">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1532">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixth day of November in the Seventeenth 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="WACWIC65216_n1443-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ462">Gentleman</rs>
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, <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="WACWIC65216_n1443-17">Edward Sheers</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-2">John<lb></lb>
Edmondson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-12">Louis Besuchet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-11">George Rickets</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-13">Thomas Blith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-3">Richard Collington</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-4">Richard Clark</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-16">Crpus Isaac</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-15">John Dorsdon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-5">John Hardcastle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-6">John Berry</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-10">James Ditterow</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-7">John Stephens</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 Edward Sheers came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Sheers a<lb></lb>
Stableman, on the Fifth day of November in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being in the Stable of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-8">Bright Hemmings</rs>
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Stable keeper situate<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1533">Clarges Street</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, And that one of the Horses in the<lb></lb>
said Stable then and there Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune kicked and trod upon the said Edward Sheers,<lb></lb>
be Means whereof the said Edward Sheers then and there<lb></lb>
received divers Bruises in and upon her<obscured></obscured>
of which<lb></lb>
said mortal Bruises he the said Edward Sheers then and<lb></lb>
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said Edward Sheers in manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune came to his death and not otherwise. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1443-9">John Edmondson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first<lb></lb>
above written</p>
<p n="1444"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1444-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ463">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1445"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1445-1">John Edmondson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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