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<p n="1154"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1123">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1124">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="1155">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at The Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1125">Hanover Square</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="WACWIC65228_geo1126">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1127">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty seventh 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_n1155-1">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 Body of Patrick Thornton then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-2">David Stoddart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-3">James Hill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-4">John Burgin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-5">Francis<lb></lb>
Daniel</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-16">John Ludley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-17">John Wheland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-6">John Bell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-18">William<lb></lb>
Perott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-7">Henry Kent</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-8">Benjamin todd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-9">Joseph Johnson</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-10">William Westmacott</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="WACWIC65228_n1155-11">Patrick Thornton</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-12">Patrick Thornton</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Brick layers labourer on the twenty sixth day of June in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid being at Work upon the House of Lady Clifford situate and<lb></lb>
being in Bruton Street in the said Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1128">Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid and then and<lb></lb>
there going up a long ladder against the front of the said House<lb></lb>
It so happened that the said Patrick Thornton Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune fell off and from the said Ladder upon the Iron<lb></lb>
Rails before the said House, by Means whereof the said Patrick Thornton<lb></lb>
then and there Received Mortal Wounds and Fractures in and<lb></lb>
upon the right side of the head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-13">Patrick Thornton</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
which said Mortal Wounds and Fractures he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-14">Patrick Thornton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1155-15">Patrick Thornton</rs>
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in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his Death and not otherwise</p>
<p n="1156">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1156-1">David Stoddart Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of this Fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1157"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1157-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ451">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1158">David Stoddard<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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