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<p n="826"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo701">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo702">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="WACWIC65212_geo703">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo704">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo705">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date148">Ninth day of May</rs>
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in the Twelfth 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="WACWIC65212_n826-1">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>
a Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-2">John<lb></lb>
Kightley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-3">John Farthing</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-4">Henry Chamberlain</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65212_n826-4" type="surname" value="Chamberlain"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-5">Philip Mitchell</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65212_n826-5" type="surname" value="Mitchell"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-99">Joseph Coulthard</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-6">John Fenwick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-7">James Peter Coghlan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-8">John Meredith</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65212_n826-8" type="surname" value="Meredith"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-77">Rowland Edwards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-9">John<lb></lb>
Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-10">Ezekiel Elliot</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65212_n826-10" type="surname" value="Elliot"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-11">George Martin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-12">James Scott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-13">Charles Hamilton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-14">John<lb></lb>
Carr</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n826-15">William Jones</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 Man unknown came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Man unknown on the<lb></lb>
Sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid, was found Drowned and<lb></lb>
Suffocated in the Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo706">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said<lb></lb>
Man unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body,<lb></lb>
but how or by what Means he became Drowned, no Evidence thereof<lb></lb>
doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner, as the said John Kightley Foreman of the said Jurors,<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place first above written</p>
<p n="827"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n827-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ232">Coroner</rs>
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John<obscured></obscured>
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Foreman</p>
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