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<p n="1426"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1214">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1215">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1216">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1217">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1218">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date257">Thirtieth day of June</rs>
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in the Twelfth Year<lb></lb>
of the Regin 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_n1426-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-23">Christopher Spence</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-2">James Beckett</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-3">Moses Cox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-4">William Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-5">James Griffiths</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-6">William Paterson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-7">William Toone</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-8">William<lb></lb>
Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-87">Thomas Perren</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-9">Thomas Rising</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-10">Stephen Preston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-11">Thomas Harwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-84">John Foye</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-73">Daniel Desmoulins</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-12">Cuthbert Smith</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 Christopher Spence came to<lb></lb>
his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Christopher Spence on the<lb></lb>
Twenty ninth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in<lb></lb>
the Liberty and County aforesaid, to wit, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1219">Chelsea Bridge</rs>
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, going into<lb></lb>
the River there to bath himself, It so happened that Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1426-13">Christopher Spence</rs>
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was in<lb></lb>
the Waters of the said RIver then and there Suffocated and Drowned,<lb></lb>
of which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said Christopher Spence<lb></lb>
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Christopher Spence, in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally casually and by Misfortune<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="WACWIC65212_n1426-14">James Beckett</rs>
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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 and<lb></lb>
Place first above written</p>
<p n="1427"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1427-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ402">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1428">J BeckettForeman</p>
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