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<p n="217"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo321">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo322">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo323">Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo324">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo325">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Fifteenth day of March in the Thirty first<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="WACWIC65231_n217-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ254">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ255">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="WACWIC65231_n217-2">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ256">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-3">Richard, Holloway</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-4">Joseph Fox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-5">Francis Baron</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-6">Thomas<lb></lb>
Pitter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-7">Thomas Sherborn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-8">Benjamin Aked</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-9">Thomas Gray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-10">Thomas<lb></lb>
Goodhall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-11">Henry Mongford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-12">Robert Withy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-13">Thomas Lea</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-14">Michael Burk</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-15">William Payne</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-16">John Waller</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="WACWIC65231_n217-17">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Ninth day of March in the year<lb></lb>
aforesaid the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-18">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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being alone in her apartment in the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-19">William Standfield</rs>
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situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo326">the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and sitting at a Table with a lighted Candle<lb></lb>
thereon, It so happened that accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the Cloaths which<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-20">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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had on her Body took fire by means whereof the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-21">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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was then and there violently burnt in and upon her Right arm<lb></lb>
Breast and Neck of which said burning she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-22">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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at the Parish<lb></lb>
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid from the said Ninth day of March in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid until the Tenth day of the same Month did languish and live on which said<lb></lb>
Tenth day of March in the Year aforesaid she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-23">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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at the Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid did die, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n217-24">Catherine Standfield</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise</p>
<p n="218">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n218-1">Richard Holloway</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ257">Foreman of the said Jurors</rs>
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on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands &<lb></lb>
Seals the Day year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="219"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n219-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ258">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="220"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n220-1">Richard Holloway</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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