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<p n="285"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo366">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo367">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo368">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo369">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo370">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eleventh day of April- in the Eighteenth 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="WACWIC65218_n285-1">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="WACWIC65218_n285-14">Thomas Christey</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-2">Henry<lb></lb>
Foley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-3">John Scott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-4">David Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-5">Edward Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-6">John Wallis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Porter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-15">Paul Astell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-8">Charles Burg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-9">James Lloyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-10">Edward Clement</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-11">William Peters</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n285-12">John Granger</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 Thomas Christey came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Christey on<lb></lb>
the Twenty ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid being<lb></lb>
in a certain Boat in and upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo371">River Thames</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and<lb></lb>
then and there Sailing down the said River, It so happened<lb></lb>
that by a sudden gust of Wind that Boat in which the said Thomas<lb></lb>
Christey was sailing was then and there Overset, and the said<lb></lb>
Thomas Christey Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
in the Water of the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo372">River Thames</rs>
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was then and there<lb></lb>
suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said Thomas Christey then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas<lb></lb>
Christey 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="WACWIC65218_n285-13">Henry Foley</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their presence have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="286"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n286-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ86">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="287">Hen. FoleyForeman</p>
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