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<p n="754"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo827">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo828">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="WACWIC65216_geo829">Saint Martin in the Fields</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="WACWIC65216_geo830">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo831">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty Sixth day of June 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_n754-1">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_n754-2">Edward Merritt</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-3">Hugh<lb></lb>
Wallace</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-4">John Benson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-19">Robert Coroner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-5">John Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-6">Joseph Boon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-7">Robert<lb></lb>
Shutter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-8">James Bride</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-20">James Berrell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-9">John Bishop</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-10">Hugh Riddle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-11">Thomas Langford</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-21">David Perrott</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_n754-12">Edward Merritt</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-13">Edward Merritt</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
Twenty Fifth day of June in the Year aforesaid being in Liquor<lb></lb>
and in his Lodging Room or Apartment in the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-14">Elizabeth Bright</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo832">St. Martin's Street</rs>
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, in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And then and there<lb></lb>
being Asleep, near unto a lighted Candle, It so happened that<lb></lb>
the Shirt which the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-15">Edward Merritt</rs>
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had on his Body then<lb></lb>
and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune took Fire,<lb></lb>
by Reason whereof, and by the Smoke and Flame arising from<lb></lb>
the said Fire, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-16">Edward Merritt</rs>
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was then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Burnt, of which said Suffocation and Burning<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-17">Edward Merritt</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Edward<lb></lb>
Marritt in Manner and by the means aforesaid, Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n754-18">Hugh Wallace</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellow, in their presence, have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place First above written</p>
<p n="755"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n755-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ233">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="756"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n756-1">Hugh Wallace</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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