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<p n="1274"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1596">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1597">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1598">Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1599">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1600">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventeenth day of August 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_n1274-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1236">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1237">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_n1274-2">Jane Walter</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1238">Infant</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1239">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-3">David Christopher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-4">John Colegate</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-5">William Whitty</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-6">Thomas<lb></lb>
Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-7">Thomas Griffith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-8">John Gossart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-9">John Havers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-11">James Macklin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-12">Joseph Seward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-13">Peter Charman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-14">Andrew Laurie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-15">Joseph<lb></lb>
Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-16">Joseph Turney</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-17">Thomas Godfrey</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_n1274-18">Jane Walker</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-19">Jane Walter</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1240">Infant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the age of about Two Years being in the Kitchen in the Dwelling<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-20">William Moore</rs>
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situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1601">Duke Street</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1602">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid and<lb></lb>
there being a saucepan full of boiling Water upon the FireIt so<lb></lb>
happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-21">Jane Walter</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1241">Infant</rs>
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pulled down the said<lb></lb>
Saucepan and that the boiling Water therein Accidentally Casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune fell upon the Neck of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-22">Jane Walter</rs>
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, and that the<lb></lb>
neck back sides and other parts of the Body of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-23">Jane Walter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
were then and there scalded and burnt of which said Scalding and<lb></lb>
burning she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-24">Jane Walter</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1242">Infant</rs>
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from the said Fifteenth day of<lb></lb>
August in the Year aforesaid until the Sixteenth day of the same mouth<lb></lb>
and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish<lb></lb>
and languishing did live on which said Sixteenth day of August in the year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-25">Jane Walter</rs>
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the Infant of the mortal burning aforesaid did die, And so<lb></lb>
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1274-26">Jane Walter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to her Death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said David briehton Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1275"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1275-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1276"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1276-1">David Crishton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1244">Foreman</rs>
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