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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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, the fourteenth day of April in the Nineteenth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman,
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas Greenwood
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John Prichard
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Walter Cross
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William Ambler
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Joseph Woodhead
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John Beales
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Joseph Wassell
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George Nesbit
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Sarah Wells
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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Sarah Wells
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an Infant of
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the Age of Nine Years on the Thirteenth day of April in the Year
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aforesaid being alone in the Room or Apartment of
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her Father, situate in Cork Cutter's Alley in the Parish aforesaid
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and
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there standing before the Fire, it so happened that the Lineen
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Cloaths which she the said
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had on her Body Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune took fire, by Reason whereof
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and from the Smoke and Flame arising from the said Fire
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she the said
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was then and there suffocated and
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Burnt, of which said Suffocation and Burning she the said
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Causally
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and by Misfortune came to her death and not otherwise.
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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said
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Thomas Simpson
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the
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behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their
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presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and
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Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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