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<p n="99"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty <lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo65">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo66">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the <lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo67">Saint Paul Covent Garden</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="WACWIC65210_geo68">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo69">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65210_date16">Thirteenth day of January</rs>
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in the Tenth 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="WACWIC65210_n99-1">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="WACWIC65210_n99-2">Joseph Drake</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-3">Charles<lb></lb>
Shepherd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-4">William Harrison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-99">William Mickin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-88">David Dinsman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-5">Robert Pettit</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-6">John<lb></lb>
Probin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-7">William Bartlett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-8">George Stevens</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65210_n99-8" type="surname" value="Stevens"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-77">Robert Whithead</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-9">Thomas Lawrence</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-10">John<lb></lb>
Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-11">Thomas Bartholomew</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-12">William Dibley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-13">Henry Parker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-14">Richard Ireland</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65210_n99-14" type="surname" value="Ireland"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-15">John<lb></lb>
Stewart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-16">James Garden</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-33">George Brownbridge</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="WACWIC65210_n99-17">Joseph Drake</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-18">Joseph Drake</rs>
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on the Tenth<lb></lb>
day of January in the Year aforesaid being in a Hackney Coach and<lb></lb>
driving from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo70">Drury Lane</rs>
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into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo71">Hart Street</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there<lb></lb>
Intoxicated and in Liquor, It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-19">Joseph Drake</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was then and there in the said Coach Suffocated and Strangled, of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-20">Joseph Drake</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do<lb></lb>
say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-21">Joseph Drake</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
came to his Death, and not otherwise, In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n99-22">Charles Shephard</rs>
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Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="100"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n100-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65210_occ28">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="101"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n101-45">Chas Shephard</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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