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<p n="1293"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1630">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1631">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 the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1632">St, George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St, Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1633">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1634">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventeenth day of August in the Thirty first<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="WACWIC65231_n1293-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1275">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1276">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="WACWIC65231_n1293-2">John Middlemas</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1277">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-3">Henry Hack</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-4">Robert Hammond</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-5">William Chamber</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-6">Thomas Dodswell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-7">Thomas Dickson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-8">John Parke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-9">Joseph Winder</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-10">John Ward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-11">Edward Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-12">John William</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-13">William Hent</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-14">Richard<lb></lb>
Garmont</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-15">John Bell</rs>
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And <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-16">Robert Clarke</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 John Middlemas came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Middlemas on the<lb></lb>
Fourteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in<lb></lb>
the Liberty and County aforesaid going into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1635">Serpentine River</rs>
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in<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1636">Hyde Park</rs>
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there to bathe himself, It so happened that Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-17">John Middlemas</rs>
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in the Water of<lb></lb>
the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and drowning he the said John Middlemas then<lb></lb>
and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oat aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1293-18">John Middlemas</rs>
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in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to<lb></lb>
his Death and not otherwise</p>
<p n="1294">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1294-1">Henry Slack</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1278">Foreman of the said Jurors</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the behalf of himself and 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="1295"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1295-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1295-2">Henry Slack</rs>
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