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<p n="356"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo380">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo381">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo382">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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in the City of Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter<lb></lb>
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo383">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo384">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twelfth day of<lb></lb>
Marchin the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by<lb></lb>
the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body of<lb></lb>
a Man Unknown then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-2">John box</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-3">Richard Matthews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-4">Richard Priest</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-13">George<lb></lb>
Hawcroft</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-5">Hugh Douglas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-14">Silas Payne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-6">Ambrose Biddle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-15">Benjamin Balewin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-7">Emanuel Lloyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-16">Thomas Castell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-8">Peter<lb></lb>
Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-9">William Holmes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-10">Richard Bromley</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n356-11">Thomas Greenaway</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen<lb></lb>
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what<lb></lb>
Means the said Man Unknowncame to Death, do upon their Oath say, That the<lb></lb>
said Man Unknown on the Ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid, was found<lb></lb>
Drowned and Suffocated in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo385">River Thames</rs>
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to Wit, at a certain place called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo386">Mill Bank</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo387">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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, within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, that the said<lb></lb>
Man Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65205_n356-12">John Cox</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place first above written</p>
<p n="357"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n357-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ145">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
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Foreman</p>
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