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<p n="456"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo561">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo562">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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} to wit </note>
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<p n="457"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo563">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo564">Parish of Saint Margaret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo565">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo566">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighteenth day of February in the twenty sixth<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="WACWIC65226_n457-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ383">Gentleman, Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-2">Benjamin Allen</rs>
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. then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-3">Nicholas Osborne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-892">Ralph Wills</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-290">John Colland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-4">Thomas Morley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-23">William Claverley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-5">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-6">John Vaughan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-7">John Townley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-8">John Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-110">Joseph Thornley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-9">William Westby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-10">Henry Bowen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-221">William Hichelwood</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 charge to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-11">Benjamin Allen</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-12">Benjamin Allen</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Momory and Understanding but lunatic and Distracted<lb></lb>
on the said Eighteenth Day of February in the Year aforesaid at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo567">Serpentine<lb></lb>
River</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo568">Hyde Park</rs>
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, did Cast and throw himself by means of which<lb></lb>
said Casting and throwing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-13">Benjamin Allen</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Water of the said River, was then and there Suffocated and Drowned,<lb></lb>
of which said Suffocation and Drowning, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-14">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Allen</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n457-15">Benjamin Allen</rs>
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in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Mean aforesaid not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatick and distracted did drown<lb></lb>
and hill himself</p>
<p n="458">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n458-1">Nicholas Osborne</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ385">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the Rest of his Fellows in their<lb></lb>
Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place above mentioned</p>
<p n="459"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n459-1">Tho Prichard</rs>
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<p n="460"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n460-1">Nicholas Osborne</rs>
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