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<p n="948"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1029">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1030">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="WACWIC65224_geo1031">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="WACWIC65224_geo1032">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1033">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty second day of May in the twenty fourth<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="WACWIC65224_n948-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-2">James Walker</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-3">Edward Chandler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-4">George Byles</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-5">Cortes Telfair</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-6">Francis Rose</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-7">Robert Hammond</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-8">James Westover</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-9">William Hinchelwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-10">John Mollard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-11">John Matthews</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-12">Robert Anderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-13">Jacob Bevis</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-14">James Pagan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chose, 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="WACWIC65224_n948-15">James Walker</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-16">James Walker</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the Twenty first day of May in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned in<lb></lb>
the Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1034">Hyde Park</rs>
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at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-17">James Walker</rs>
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had no Marks of violence<lb></lb>
appearing on his Body, but how or by what Means he<lb></lb>
became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof<lb></lb>
doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n948-18">Edward Chandler</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ629">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="949"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n949-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ630">Coroner</rs>
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Edwd Chandler<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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