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<p n="1599"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1357">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1358">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_geo1359">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_geo1360">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1361">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date298">Twenty fifth day of July</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_n1599-1">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="WACWIC65212_n1599-47">Benjamin Burch</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Holland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-3">Thomas Hedges</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-4">William Stevens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-5">William Dean</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-6">Anthony Andrews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-7">Philip<lb></lb>
Hook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-8">Thomas Rickets</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-9">Henry Pitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-10">John Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-11">Thomas Hicks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-12">George Oakley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-88">Mark<lb></lb>
Gueaneau</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1599-77">Gregory Mc. Cannon</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 Benjamin Burch came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say<lb></lb>
That the said Benjamin Burch on the Twenty fourth<lb></lb>
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
to wit, at the Flood Gates <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1362">Chelsea</rs>
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going into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1363">River Thames</rs>
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there to Bathe himself<lb></lb>
and not being Skilfull in Swimming, it so happened that accidentally casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune he the said Benjamin in Burch was in the Waters of the said River<lb></lb>
then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he<lb></lb>
the said Benjamin Burch then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Benjamin Burch in manner and by<lb></lb>
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not<lb></lb>
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors<lb></lb>
foresaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1600"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1600-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ441">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1600-2">Thos. Holland</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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