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<p n="1516"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmister<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1205">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_geo1206">Saint 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="WACWIC65213_geo1207">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1208">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date286">Thirtieth 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 saith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-1">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_n1516-2">John Clay</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-99">James Bukett</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-3">James Barnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-4">John Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-88">William Fawn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-5">George Liddell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-6">Edward Foster</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-7">John Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-8">Joseph<lb></lb>
Hodge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-9">Stephen Presten</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-10">John Plant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-77">Thomas Reasin</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-11">Aaron Pever</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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_n1516-12">John Clay</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_n1516-13">John Clay</rs>
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on the Twenty eighth day of July in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid being in a certain Lime Barge in a certain River<lb></lb>
called the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1209">River Thames</rs>
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near unto the Flood Yates in the said Parish Liberty and County then and there being and the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-14">John Clay</rs>
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having a Handspike in his hands and using it betwixt the head of the Barge and the Campshed with an<lb></lb>
intent to save the Barge from running against the Bank, it so happened that accidentally casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune the said Hand spike gave way and stipt from him by reason whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-15">John Clay</rs>
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accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Barge into the said River, and in the waters thereof was then and<lb></lb>
there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-16">John Clay</rs>
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then and there Died. And<lb></lb>
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-17">John Clay</rs>
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in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise, and that the said<lb></lb>
Handspike was moving to the Death of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-18">John Clay</rs>
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and is of the Value of One Shilling, and the Property<lb></lb>
and in the Possession of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1516-28">Sylvanus Cosvaller</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1210">Charlton</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1211">County of Kent</rs>
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Lime Merchant or of his Assigns.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Forenoon of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1517"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1517-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ358">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1518">BrickettForeman</p>
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