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<p n="615"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo483">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo484">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="616">An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo485">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo486">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo487">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date116">Eleventh day of May</rs>
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in the Eleventh 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="WACWIC65211_n616-1">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="WACWIC65211_n616-99">Cornelius Severs</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-2">John<lb></lb>
Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-88">James Groce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-3">Barny Flin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-77">Henry List</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-4">Thomas Andrews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-5">Edward<lb></lb>
Young</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-6">John Allen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-7">James Park</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-8">James Pagan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-9">George Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-10">William<lb></lb>
Knight</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-11">Thomas Exton</rs>
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Good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
Chosen, whe 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 Cornelius Severs came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Cornelius Severs, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on<lb></lb>
the Ninth day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, into the Serpentine River within<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo488">Kensington Garden</rs>
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there did cast and throw himself, by Means of which<lb></lb>
said Casting and Throwing, he the said Cornelius Severs in the Waters of the<lb></lb>
said River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Drowning he the said Cornelius Severs then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Juror aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said Cornelius Severs in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
foresaid, not being of<obscured></obscured>
Mind Memory and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, did drown and kill himself. In Witness<lb></lb>
where of as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n616-12">John Randall</rs>
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foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands bord Seals, the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="617"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n617-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ162">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="618"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n618-1">John Randall</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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