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<p n="232"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo191">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo192">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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<p n="233">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo193">Saint Margaretin the City of Westminster</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and<lb></lb>
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo194">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo195">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date48">Ninth day of<lb></lb>
March</rs>
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in the Third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great<lb></lb>
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so Forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman<lb></lb>
Coroner of 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_n233-2">Lewis Sulsh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-77">Sturges Shoveler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-55">Henry Peeke</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-5">Abraham Longstaff</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-8">Nathaniel Clayton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-22">Henry Friday</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn an<obscured></obscured>
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charged to inquire do Our said Lord the King, when how, and by what Means the said Man Unknown<lb></lb>
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the Seventh day of<lb></lb>
March in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thomas , to wit,<lb></lb>
near unto <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo196">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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at the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty aforesaid in the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, that the said Man Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but<lb></lb>
how or by what Means he became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to<lb></lb>
the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n233-14">Lewis Sulsh</rs>
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Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and<obscured></obscured>
first above written.</p>
<p n="234"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n234-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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