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<p n="393"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo450">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo451">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo452">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo453">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourteenth day of April in the Nineteenth 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="WACWIC65219_n393-1">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="WACWIC65219_n393-2">Sarah Wells</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Simpson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-4">Thomas Greenwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-5">Frederick Franklin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-6">Hugh Payne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-7">John Moore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-8">John Prichard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-9">William Bevis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-10">Walter Cross</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-11">William Ambler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-12">Joseph Woodhead</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-13">John Beales</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-14">Joseph Wassell</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-15">George Nesbit</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="WACWIC65219_n393-16">Sarah Wells</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-17">Sarah Wells</rs>
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an Infant of<lb></lb>
the Age of Nine Years on the Thirteenth day of April in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid being alone in the Room or Apartment of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-18">John Wells</rs>
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<lb></lb>
her Father, situate in Cork Cutter's Alley in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and<lb></lb>
there standing before the Fire, it so happened that the Lineen<lb></lb>
Cloaths which she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-19">Sarah Wells</rs>
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had on her Body Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune took fire, by Reason whereof<lb></lb>
and from the Smoke and Flame arising from the said Fire<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-20">Sarah Wells</rs>
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was then and there suffocated and<lb></lb>
Burnt, of which said Suffocation and Burning she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-21">Sarah Wells</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-22">Sarah Wells</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Causally<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune came to her death and not otherwise.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n393-23">Thomas Simpson</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="394"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n394-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ122">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="395">Thos. SimpsonForeman</p>
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