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<p n="988"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo982">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo983">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo984">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo985">Saint 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="WACWIC65228_geo986">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo987">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the ninth day of June in the twenty eighth<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="WACWIC65228_n988-1">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 a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-2">Robert Anderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-3">John Coomes</rs>
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, John Towsley<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-4">William Kerr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-5">William Hinshelwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-6">William Ellis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-7">James Elwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-8">Benjamin Perrin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-9">Samuel Rudd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-12">John Peasly</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-11">William<lb></lb>
Feecham</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n988-10">William Cade</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 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 on the said ninth day of June<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid the said Man whose name is unknown<lb></lb>
was found Drowned and suffocated in the Serpentine<lb></lb>
River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo988">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the said Parish of Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid that no marks<lb></lb>
of violence appeared on the Body but how or by what<lb></lb>
means the said Man unknown became Drowned and<lb></lb>
Suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors</p>
<p n="989">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n989-1">Robert Anderson</rs>
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Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of<lb></lb>
his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned</p>
<p n="990"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n990-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ392">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n990-2">Robert Anderson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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