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<p n="457"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo522">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="458">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo524">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo525">Parish of St. Margaret</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="WACWIC65225_geo526">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo527">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighteenth day of March in the twenty fifth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ279">Gentleman, Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of Benjamin Higgs a Prisoner then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-2">Samuel Ray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-3">John Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-992">John Sowton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-4">James Hammett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-921">Hercules Pasco</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-5">Joseph Phillips</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-6">William Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-332">Robert Porrant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-7">Thomas Dewick</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-8">Richard Cox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-9">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-10">Dennis Anderson</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
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>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-11">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Higgs</rs>
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being a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ280">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo528">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, on the said Eighteenth day of<lb></lb>
March in the Year aforesaid at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo529">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid, departed this Life by the Visitation of God,<lb></lb>
in a natural Way. In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n458-12">Samuel Ray</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ281">Foreman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="459"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n459-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ282">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="460"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n460-1">Samuel Ray</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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