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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1106">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="960">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1107">Westminster</rs>
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within the Liberty of the<lb></lb>
Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1108">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1109">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the Twenty eight day of August in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George<lb></lb>
the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for<lb></lb>
the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-2">Thomas Swain</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-3">Thomas Applebee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-4">Thomas Green</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-23">William Ervin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-5">Robert Collins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-6">John Page</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-7">James Bartlett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-8">Robert Clarkson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-9">Joseph Bayles</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-10">John Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-11">John<lb></lb>
Brooklebank</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-12">Walter Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-24">Henry Friday</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-13">James Dunn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-25">John Skinner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-14">Bailey<lb></lb>
Bellimore</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-15">Richard Harriman</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who<lb></lb>
being then and there duly sworn and charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when,<lb></lb>
how and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-16">Thomas Swain</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their<lb></lb>
Oath say, That on the Twenty seventh day of August in the Year aforesaid, the said Thomas Swains<lb></lb>
being on Board a certain Barge or Lighter Loaden with Lime, and lying at Mr. Marsden's Wharf<lb></lb>
upon <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1110">Mill Bank</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1111">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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with in the City and Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
in the County aforesaid; And the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-17">Thomas Swain</rs>
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being then and there asleep in the Cabin<lb></lb>
of the said Barge, It so happened that the said Barge under the Lime and near to the Cabin, Where<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-18">Thomas Swain</rs>
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lay asleep, Accidentally, Casually and by Misfortune took fire, and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-19">Thomas Swain</rs>
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was then and there by the Smoak and Sulphurious Smell, arising<lb></lb>
from the said Fire, Suffocated and Smothered, of which said Suffocation and Smothering he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-20">Thomas Swain</rs>
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died the same day at a certain Hospital called the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1112">Westminster Hospital</rs>
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situate in<lb></lb>
the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1113">St. Margaret</rs>
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within the City Liberty and County aforesaid. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-21">Thomas Swain</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n960-22">Thomas Applebee</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="961"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n961-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n961-2">Thos Applebee</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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