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<p n="230"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmister<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo277">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo278">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo279">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo280">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Tenth day of February in the Twentieth 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="WACWIC65220_n230-1">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>
a Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-2">Richard<lb></lb>
Dobinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-3">Robert Lyne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-4">Thomas Redar</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-5">John Roberts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-6">John Lee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-12">George<lb></lb>
Puffin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-7">Richard Beadle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-8">Nathan Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-9">William Boucher</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-13">Thomas Dyne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-14">James Hembrow</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-10">William Watson</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 Man unknown came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Man Unknown<lb></lb>
on the Ninth day of February in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
was found drowned and suffocated in the Serpentine<lb></lb>
River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo281">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That<lb></lb>
no Marks of violence appeared on the Body of<lb></lb>
the said Man unknown, but how or by what<lb></lb>
Means he became Drowned and Suffocated, no<lb></lb>
Evidence there doth appear to the Jurors.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n230-11">Richard Dobinson</rs>
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Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest<lb></lb>
of his said Fellows, in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="231"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n231-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65220_occ87">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Richd. DobinsonForeman</p>
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