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<p n="997"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo904">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo905">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit. </note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo906">Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo907">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo908">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date184">Fourth day of July</rs>
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in the Eighth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-1">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 <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-2">Joseph Miller</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-3">George<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-4">Thomas Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-46">Walter Hemmins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-5">William Mitchel</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-88">Thomas Haylock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-6">Thomas<lb></lb>
Scot</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-7">Nathaniel Grant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-8">Joseph Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-9">Silvester Freeman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-77">Samuel Vaughan</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-66">John Cooknol</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-10">John Gritton</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-11">John Davis</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-12">Joseph Miller</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-13">Joseph Miller</rs>
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on the First day of<lb></lb>
July in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Lighter loaden with Coals, and<lb></lb>
floating on the River Thomas to Wit, at Parliament Stairs, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo909">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
John the Evangelist</rs>
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within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, and<lb></lb>
then and there walking hastily along the Side of the said Lighter, it so<lb></lb>
happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-14">Joseph Miller</rs>
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then and there struck his foot against<lb></lb>
an Iron fixed in the Said Lighter, and by means thereof fell out of the said<lb></lb>
Lighter into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo910">River Thames</rs>
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, and in the Waters thereof was then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-15">Joseph Miller</rs>
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then and<obscured></obscured>
died. And so the Jurors of said upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-16">Joseph Miller</rs>
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Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune in manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his Death and not<lb></lb>
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n997-17">George<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="998"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n998-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ270">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="999"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n999-1">George Davis</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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