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<p n="1577"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1954">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1955">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1956">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1957">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1958">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the first day of August 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_n1577-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1311">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_n1577-2">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1312">Infant</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-3">Thomas Lees</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-4">John Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-5">Robert Slack</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-6">William Heath</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-7">Joseph Gibbins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-8">William Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-9">James Wright</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-10">Henry Chapman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-11">John Shearman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-12">Robert Roobard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-13">Thomas<lb></lb>
Shankster</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-14">Robert Forbes</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 by Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-15">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-16">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Infant, to Wit, of the Age of Eleven Weeks, on the Twenty eighth<lb></lb>
day of July, in the Year aforesaid, being in Bed with <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-17">Sarah<lb></lb>
Clements</rs>
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Mother of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-18">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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in her Lodging<lb></lb>
Room in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-19">Elizabeth Moore</rs>
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situate in<lb></lb>
Oxford Building in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid. And the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-20">Sarah Clements</rs>
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being very<lb></lb>
Deaf and in Liquor. It is happened, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-21">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Instant. Accidentally Casually by Misfortune, was then and<lb></lb>
there Suffocated and Smothered, of which said Suffocation and Smothering<lb></lb>
She the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-22">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-23">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Potts</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune came to her death. In Witness whereof,<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1577-24">Thomas Lees</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1313">Foreman</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows<lb></lb>
in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place above mentioned</p>
<p n="1578"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1578-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1579"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1579-1">Thos Lees<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</rs>
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