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<p n="1681"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1624">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1625">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="WACWIC65229_geo1626">Knights bridge</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1627">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="WACWIC65229_geo1628">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1629">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Second day of September in the twenty ninth<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="WACWIC65229_n1681-1">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="WACWIC65229_n1681-13">Peter Gurton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-2">William Hinshelwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-3">William Day</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-4">Richard Richards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-5">James Reading</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-6">Joseph Mathews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-7">William Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-8">Griffith Harris</rs>
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J<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-14">ohn Marsdon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-9">Thomas Heath</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-10">Thomas Coward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-11">William Watts</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1681-12">George Grimwood</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 Peter Gurton came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Peter Gurton on the first<lb></lb>
day of September in the Year aforesaid going into the Serpentine River<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1630">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, to bathe himself, It so happened that Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune he the said Peter Gurton was then and <lb></lb>
there in the Water of the said River suffocated and Drowned, of which<lb></lb>
said suffocation and Drowning he the said Peter Gurton then and <lb></lb>
there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid,<lb></lb>
do say that the said Peter Gurton in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his<lb></lb>
Death and not otherwise.</p>
<p n="1682">In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1682-1">William Hinshelwood</rs>
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, Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1683"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1683-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65229_occ568">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1684"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1684-1">Wm. Hinshelwood</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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