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by the Grace God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so
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City and Liberty On View of the Body of
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the Oath of
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Thomas Apleby
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James Buckell
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Thomas Trumpshaw
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William Allmond
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Samuel Fanset
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Joseph Smith
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Samuel Dewer
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Robert Chamberlain
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Andrew Rogers
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Nathaniel Grant
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Henry Houlbrook
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Edward James
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Solomon Morgan
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
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when, how and by what Means the said
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Richard Clements
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came to his Death, do upon
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their Oath say, That the said
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Richard Clements
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a Carpenter on the third day September in the year
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aforesaid being at work upon a certain new Chapel called the Queen's Chapel situate and being at Pimlico
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in the
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Parish of St. George
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Hanover Square
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and
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there, with other Workmen, lifting up certain pieces of Timber called Principals, and standing upon the
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Gable of the said Chapel, It so happened that a Rope which was fastened to the said Timber Accidentally
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del
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Casually and
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by Misfortune did then and there break, and that one of the said pieces of Timber did
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fall upon and against the Right Leg of the said
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Richard Clements
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, by Means whereof he the said
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Richard Clements
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did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one Mortal Fracture in and upon his
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>
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Right Leg, of which said Mortal Fracture he the said
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Richard Clements
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for the said Third day of September
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in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the same Month in the same year, at the
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Westminster Hospital
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>
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situate and being in the Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish
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lb
>
</
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>
and languishing did live, on which said Twenty ninth day of September in the year aforesaid he the said
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lb
>
</
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>
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Richard Clements
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at the Hospital aforesaid, of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid, did die
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say , that the said
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Richard Clements
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Causally and by Misfortune came to his
<
lb
>
</
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>
Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said coroner, as the said
<
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>
</
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John Harkness
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
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lb
>
</
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>
Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
and Place first abvoe written
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n
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Tho. Prickard
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>
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Coroner
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>
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p
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Jno. Harkness Foreman
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>
</
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>
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