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<p n="1794"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1497">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1498">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 House of Mr Bryan <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1499">Sign of the Swan</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1500">upper Mount Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1501">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1502">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1503">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65233_date251">thirteenth day of July 1793</rs>
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in the thirty third<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign on 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="WACWIC65233_n1794-332">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ905">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ906">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="WACWIC65233_n1794-3">John Soley</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the Several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written and Seals<lb></lb>
affixed<lb></lb>
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 John Soley came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said John Soley on the twelfth<lb></lb>
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid, to wit, into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1504">Serpentine River</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1505">Hyde Park</rs>
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, there going<lb></lb>
to bathe himself. It so happened, that accidentally, casually, and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune be the said John Soley was in the Waters of the said River<lb></lb>
then and there suffocated and drowned: Of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said John Soley then and there instantly died, And<lb></lb>
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John<lb></lb>
Soley in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally Casually, and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their hand and Seals the day year, and place first above written.</p>
<p n="1795"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1795-1">Anthy. Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ907">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1796"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1796-1">Jonas Jones</rs>
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Foreman}</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1797-2">John Ladley</rs>
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<p n="1798"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1798-1">Danl: Carnley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1798-2">Jno. Cave</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1798-3">John Wareham</rs>
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<p n="1799"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1799-1">George Cadby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1799-2">Randal Cadman</rs>
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Jones Shoth</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1800-922">Joseph Rauton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1800-2">Edwd. Knowlings</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1800-3">Chas. Elkins</rs>
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