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<p n="169"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo193">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo194">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit. </note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo195">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo196">St. Margaret</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo197">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo198">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty eighth day of February in the twenty third<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ107">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the Ling for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of John Grocock a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-2">Henry Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-3">Wiliam Brooks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-4">John Best</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-5">Richard Lawrence</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-15">David Mecham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-6">Mathew Hill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-7">John Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-8">Michael Harding</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-9">Thomas Thompson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-10">William<lb></lb>
Woods</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-11">John Taylor</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-12">Thomas Lane</rs>
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good and Lawful Man 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 John Gocock came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-13">John Grocock</rs>
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being a Prisoner in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo199">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the said Twenty eighth day of February<lb></lb>
in the year aforesaid at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo200">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo201">Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid departed this Life in a natural way to Wit<lb></lb>
of a Cancer on the Right side of his Head.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n169-14">Henry Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ108">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors,<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals the Day year and Place<lb></lb>
above written</p>
<p n="170"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n170-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ109">Coroner</rs>
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Henry Smith<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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