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<p n="30"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo43">Westminster</rs>
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City and Liberty<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo44">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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<p n="31">An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo45">Saint,<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate<lb></lb>
Church of St. Peter at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo46">Westminster</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date13">Fourteenth day of March in the thirty third Year of<lb></lb>
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain<lb></lb>
France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our<lb></lb>
Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty</rs>
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Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-1">John Feary</rs>
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Coroner<lb></lb>
for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo47">Westminster</rs>
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aforesaid Upon<lb></lb>
a Veiw of the Body of a Woman unknown then and there lying Dead by the Oaths<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-99">Thomas Beven</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-3">Joseph Calway</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-4">John Newall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-5">William Skates</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-6">Paul<lb></lb>
Webster</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-7">John North</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-8">John Wills</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-9">James Reeves</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-10">Thomas Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-11">John Hainslow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-12">Thomas<lb></lb>
Burton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-13">John Miller</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-44">Edward Plasted</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-16">William Lewis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n31-17">Christopher Nettleton</rs>
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Good and Lawfull Men of the<lb></lb>
said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
Kind how when where and in what manner the said Woman unknown came to her<lb></lb>
Death Say upon their Oaths That on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date14">13th day of March Instant</rs>
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the said<lb></lb>
Woman unknown being found in a certain River called the Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo48">Hyde Park</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo49">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, and no<lb></lb>
Marks of Violence appearing on the Body of the said Woman to Occasion her Death<lb></lb>
nor any Evidence to be found to prove either who she was or how or when she came into<lb></lb>
the said River. We the said Jurors upon our Oaths do say and find that by the<lb></lb>
Appearence of the Body of the said Woman unknown she in the said River aforesaid<lb></lb>
was Drowned but whether by her own Will or by any Accident or Misfortune the Jurors<lb></lb>
know not In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the day year, and at<lb></lb>
the place aforesaid.</p>
<p n="32"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n32-1">Jno. Feary</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65200_occ5">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="33"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n33-1">Thos Bevan</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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