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of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France
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and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before
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Alexander Smilely
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there
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duly sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how, and
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by what means the said
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Came to his Death, do upon the
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Oath say, That the said
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on the Twenty first day of February in the Year
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aforesaid being shut out of his Lodging, in the Dwelling House of Nichols situate at
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Vaux hall in the Parish of St. Mary Lambeth in the County of Surry, And the said
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having then and there Climbed up a Wooden Spout in order to get into the said House at and
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through a Window near the top thereof, It so happened that the said
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Casually and by Misfortune did then and there fall down off and from the said House unto the Ground
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did then and there Accidentally Casually and by misfortune
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receive divers mortal Bruises in and upon his Back, Loins and Stomach, of which said
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mortal Bruises he the said
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from the said Twenty first day of February in the Year
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aforesaid until the Twelfth day of March in the same Year, at the
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in the said
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Parish of St. Margaret, within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing
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did live, on which said Twelfth day of March in the Year aforesaid, he the said
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their Oath aforesaid, do say, by Misfortune, came to his Death, and not otherwise In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Robert Patton Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
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behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition
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set their Hands and seals, the Day Year and Place first above Written.
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Tho Prickard
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