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<p n="786"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo875">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo876">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo877">Parish of St. 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_geo878">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo879">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighth day of July 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_n786-1">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>
Mathew Davies then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-2">Joseph<lb></lb>
Kettlewell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-3">Samuel Pryor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-4">Robert Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-5">John Hawkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-6">David Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-7">Jeremiah Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-8">James Hoare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-9">Edward Baythorn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-10">John Thompson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-11">Richard Carter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-12">William Branch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-13">William Markins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-14">James Knowles</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-15">William Miller</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-16">James Barber</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_n786-17">Mathew Davies</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_n786-18">Matthew Davies</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
Seventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, being at Play by the side<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo880">River Thames</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-19">Matthew Davies</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo881">River<lb></lb>
Thames</rs>
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, and in the Waters thereof was then and there Suffocated<lb></lb>
and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-20">Matthew Davies</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-21">Matthew<lb></lb>
Davies</rs>
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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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n786-22">Joseph<lb></lb>
Kettlewell</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above-<lb></lb>
written</p>
<p n="787"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n787-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ239">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="788"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n788-1">Joseph Kettlewell</rs>
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