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<p n="1462"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmister<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1157">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1158">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="WACWIC65213_geo1159">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date270">Twenty ninth day of July</rs>
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in the Thirteenth 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="WACWIC65213_n1462-1">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="WACWIC65213_n1462-2">William Chatham</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-3">Thomas Newberry</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-4">John Stevens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-89">Henry List</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-99">William Gee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-5">Richard Beedle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-88">Robert Stroud</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-6">John Winn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-77">Thomas<lb></lb>
Davenish</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-66">Thomas Reeder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-7">John Sadler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-44">William Macleish</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-8">Robert Mason</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-9">Avery Tirreell</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-10">Benjamin Bailey</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-11">James Pagan</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-12">William Chatham</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-13">William Chatham</rs>
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on the Twenty fourth<lb></lb>
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1160">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1161">Hyde Park</rs>
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going into the Serpentive River there<lb></lb>
to Swim it so happened that accidentaly casually and by Misfortune be the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-14">William Chatham</rs>
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was in the waters of he said River then and there Suffocated and<lb></lb>
Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-15">William Chatham</rs>
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instantly<lb></lb>
Did And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1462-16">William Chatham</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the<lb></lb>
rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and at the Place first abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1463"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1463-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ352">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1464"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1464-1">Tho Newberry</rs>
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Foreman.</p>
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