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<p n="2554"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3126">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3127">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint Clement Daines<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3128">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3129">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty seventh day of December in the twenty seventh<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_n2554-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2128">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2129">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_n2554-983">William Cottell</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2130">Infant</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-2">Robert Boyle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-3">James Sanger</rs>
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, Robert Plaxton, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-4">George<lb></lb>
Young</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-5">Stephen Harper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-7">Benjamin Booty</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-8">Benjamin Walker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-11">Nicolas Winter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-12">John Elsworth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-13">William Bruce</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-17">William King</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-18">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-19">John Hall</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-20">William Cattell</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_n2554-21">William Cattell</rs>
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the Infant<lb></lb>
on the twenty third day of December on the Year aforesaid at<lb></lb>
the Parish and in the Liberty & County aforesaid being laid to sleep<lb></lb>
in a certain turn up bed then and there being in a back room in<lb></lb>
the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-888">William Catell</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2131">Father</rs>
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of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-22">William<lb></lb>
Cattell</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2132">Infant</rs>
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. And <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-8912">Susanna Partridge</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-8919">Rebecca Cattell</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Mother of the said Infant coming into the said Room and not knowing<lb></lb>
that the said William Catell was then and there asleep or lying<lb></lb>
in the said Bed. it so happen'd that the said Susanna Partridge accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually & by Misfortune then and there innocently turned up the said Bid<lb></lb>
by Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-23">William Cattell</rs>
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the Infant in the Cloaths of the<lb></lb>
said bed was then and there Suffocated and Smothered of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Smothering he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-24">William Cattell</rs>
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the Infant<lb></lb>
then & there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2554-25">William Cattell</rs>
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the Infant in manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally, Casually & by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his Death.</p>
<p n="2555">In Witness whereof as Well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2555-1">Robert Boyle</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2134">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
the behalf of himself & the rest of his Fellows in their Presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="2556"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2556-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="2557">Robt. BoyleForeman</p>
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