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<p n="1636"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1250">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1251">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit </note>
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<p n="1637"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1252">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</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="WACWIC65211_geo1253">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1254">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date337">Twentieth day of September </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_n1637-1">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_n1637-2">James Russell</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-3">John Cock</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-4">John Jenkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-5">John Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-6">Archibald Coyle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-7">William Mathews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-8">James Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-77">John<lb></lb>
Poltorer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-9">James Morris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-10">John West</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-11">James Leader</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-12">John Stevens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-13">Benjamin Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-14">Thomas<lb></lb>
Staines</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-15">Clement Watts</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-33">John Hardun</rs>
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
Choosen, 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="WACWIC65211_n1637-16">James Russell</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-17">James Russell</rs>
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a Slater on the<lb></lb>
said Twentieth day of September in the Year aforesaid being at Work<lb></lb>
upon the top of the dwelling House of Wynne Esquire Situate in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1255">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid And being then and there coming down a Ladder near<lb></lb>
unto the top of the said House, It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-18">James<lb></lb>
Russell</rs>
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then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
fell down upon the Stone Payment within the Iron-Rails, in the<lb></lb>
Front of the said House and thereby did then and there receive<lb></lb>
divers Mortal Wounds Bruises and Fractures and upon the<lb></lb>
Head and Body of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-19">James Russell</rs>
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, or which said Mortal<lb></lb>
Wounds Bruises and Fractured he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-20">James Russell</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon there Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-21">James Russell</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his<lb></lb>
Death, and not otherwise, In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1637-22">John Cock</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and place above written</p>
<p n="1638"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1638-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ407">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1639"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1639-1">John Cock</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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