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<p n="350"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo414">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo415">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="351">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo416">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo417">Collegiate Church of St. Peter</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo418">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo419">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Ninth day of February in the twenty sixth<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="WACWIC65226_n351-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ294">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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-72">William Sivers</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-2">Joseph Collins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-3">Thomas Goodale</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-209">Holles Cave</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-4">George Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-5">William Sheppard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-6">John Wilson</rs>
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, Mathew Cooling,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-7">John Milton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-8">James Stewart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-9">James Arguart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-992">John<lb></lb>
Glindining</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-10">James Fraser</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 William Sivers came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n351-102">William Sivers</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ295">Waterman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the Seventh day of February in the Year aforesaid having his<lb></lb>
Lug Boat loaded with Staves, on the outside of the Barges upon<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo420">River Thames</rs>
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, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo421">Hungerford Stairs</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid <lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid And that the said William<lb></lb>
Sivers in crossing the said Barges towards his own Boat then and<lb></lb>
there Accidently Casually and by the Misfortune fell into the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo422">River<lb></lb>
Thames</rs>
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and in the Water thereof was then and there suffocated and<lb></lb>
Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the William<lb></lb>
Sivers then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said William Sivers in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid Accidently Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came his Death.</p>
<p n="352">In Witness whereof as well the said <lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n352-1">Joseph Collins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ296">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurrors <lb></lb>
on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their <lb></lb>
Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals <lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="353"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n353-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ297">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="354">Joseph CollinForeman</p>
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