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<p n="29"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo26">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo27">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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<p n="30">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo28">Parish of St. 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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo29">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo30">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date10">Twenty fifth day of January</rs>
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in the Third<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France<lb></lb>
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of a Man Unknown<lb></lb>
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-2">John Surby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-3">Thomas Sprigg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-4">Samuel Norgrave</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-5">Richard Burton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-6">John Orton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-7">Richard Beech</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-8">William Wallis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-9">Benjamin Hunt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-88">Edward Marebeck</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-77">Michael Gano</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-10">Benjamin Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-11">Isaac Gardner</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n30-12">John Towers</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and<lb></lb>
Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how and by what means the said Man<lb></lb>
Unknowncame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the<lb></lb>
Twenty third day of January in the Year aforesaid, was found Drowned and Suffocated<lb></lb>
in a certain open Ditch or Common Sewer running from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo31">Knights bridge</rs>
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to the River<lb></lb>
Thomas, near unto a Bridge called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo32">Bloody Bridge</rs>
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in the saud <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo33">Parish of St. George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, that the said Man unknown<lb></lb>
had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by what Means he became<lb></lb>
Drowned and Suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors.</p>
<p n="31">In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65203_occ8">Coroner</rs>
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, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n31-1">John Surby</rs>
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Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors, on the behalf of Himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence,<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first<lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="32"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n32-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n32-2">John Surby</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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