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of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1595">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1471-1">John Gardner</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1596">Sign of the Cock</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1597">the Haymarket</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1598">Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
James</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1599">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1600">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourteenth day of July 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1471-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ772">Esq.</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1471-3">Mary Brooks</rs>
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an Infant aged seventeen Months then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said Mary Brooks came to h er Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Mary on the thirteenth day of July in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit<lb></lb>
in the Window of the two pair of Stairs Room of the Dwelling<lb></lb>
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House of her Mother in then and there being <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1601">Cock yard</rs>
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It So happened that<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by Misfortune she the said Mary<lb></lb>
Brooks out of the said Window unto the Ground did fall by<lb></lb>
Means whereof she the said Mary Brooks then and there received<lb></lb>
a Mortal Bruise on her Head: Of which said Mortal she the<lb></lb>
said Mary Brooks then and there instantly died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said Mary Brooks<lb></lb>
in manner & by the Means aforesaid accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by Misfortune came to her death<lb></lb>
and not otherwise.</p>
<p n="1472"> In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
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<p n="1474"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1474-1">James Savage</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1474-4">John King</rs>
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<p n="1475"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1475-1">Thos. White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1475-3">John Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1475-4">Henry Westly</rs>
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W Gardener<lb></lb>
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<p n="1476"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1476-1">John Pridmore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1476-2">John Sheppard</rs>
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