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<p n="1141"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1230">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1231">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to Wit.</note>
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<p n="1142">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1232">Hanover Square</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="WACWIC65219_geo1233">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1234">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Thirty first day of August 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_n1142-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ404">Gentleman</rs>
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,<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_n1142-2">John Smith</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-18">Thomas<lb></lb>
Lyme</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-3">George Michell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-4">John Ward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-5">Henry Porter</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-6">William Abbott</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-7">Robert Bennet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-19">Henry McLaughlin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-20">John Greenhalgh</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-8">John Dickson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-9">John Johnson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-10">John Baker</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-21">William Gellars</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_n1142-11">John Smith</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-12">John Smith</rs>
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a Slater<lb></lb>
on the Thirtieth day of August in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being at Work upon the Ridge of the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
the Honourable <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-13">Charles Marsham</rs>
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Situate and being in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo1235">Arlington Street</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, And that it so happened<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-14">John Smith</rs>
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then and there Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the said ridge<lb></lb>
unto and upon the Flatt of the said House, (which said<lb></lb>
Flatt was covered with Lead.) and thereby then and there<lb></lb>
received one mortal Wound and Fracture in and upon the<lb></lb>
Rightside of his Head, of which said Mortal Wound and<lb></lb>
Fracture he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-15">John Smith</rs>
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then and there Died<lb></lb>
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do<lb></lb>
Say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-16">John Smith</rs>
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in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1142-17">Thomas Lyne</rs>
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Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1143"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n1143-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ405">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Thos Lyme Foreman</p>
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