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<p n="3"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo2">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo3">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="4">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo4">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo5">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo6">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eleventh day of January in the Sixteenth 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="WACWIC65216_n4-1">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="WACWIC65216_n4-2">John Rowlet</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-3">Richard<lb></lb>
Kilsby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-4">Patrick Fulton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-22">John Booge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-5">Robert Thatcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-6">William<lb></lb>
Newman</rs>
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, John Berdd, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-7">John Wilkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-8">George Green</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-9">George<lb></lb>
Collett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-21">William Rentull Jossop</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-10">John Wall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-11">John Lawder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-12">William<lb></lb>
Gordon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-13">Peter Hill</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-14">John Lucas</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="WACWIC65216_n4-15">John Rowlet</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-16">John Rowlet</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
Eighth day of January in the Year aforesaid being upon and<lb></lb>
walking over certain Lighters and Barges in and upon the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo7">River Thames</rs>
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at Black Lyon Stairs in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and<lb></lb>
there Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-17">John Rowlet</rs>
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did then and there Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune fall over and from one of the said Lighters into<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo8">River Thames</rs>
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, and in the Waters thereof was then and<lb></lb>
there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-18">John Rowlet</rs>
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then and there died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid Upon their Oath aforesaid, do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-19">John Rowlet</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid.<lb></lb>
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his death,<lb></lb>
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n4-20">Richard Kilsby</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="5"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n5-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ1">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="6"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n6-1">Richd. Kilsbry</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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