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<p n="347"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo518">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo519">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo520">Saint George 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="WACWIC65231_geo521">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo522">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventh day of April 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_n347-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ397">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ398">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_n347-2">James Cheetham</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ399">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-3">Richard Sweet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-4">Sadler Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-5">Thomas Wigfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-6">James Newton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-7">John Bristow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-8">Erasmus Gmnd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-9">John Harding</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-10">James Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-11">William George</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-12">Matthew Musgrave</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-13">Francis Daniel</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-14">Edward Akeman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-15">James Sherley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-16">Henry List</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_n347-17">James Cheetham</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-18">James Cheetham</rs>
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not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ400">Lunatick</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
distracted on the twenty sixth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo523">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
(to wit) into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo524">Serpentine River</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo525">Hyde Park</rs>
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there did cast and throw<lb></lb>
himself by means of which said Casting and throwing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-19">James<lb></lb>
Cheetham</rs>
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in the Water of the said River was then and there suffocated<lb></lb>
and drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-20">James<lb></lb>
Cheetham</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n347-21">James Cheetham</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ401">Lunatick</rs>
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and distracted in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid did hill himself</p>
<p n="348">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n348-1">Richard Sweet</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ402">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned</p>
<p n="349"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n349-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="350"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n350-1">Richd. Sweet</rs>
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