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<p n="1709"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2124">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2125">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2126">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Pater, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2128">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2129">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty second day of October 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_n1709-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1653">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1654">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_n1709-2">William Smith</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1655">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-3">John Pettis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-4">Peter Fozard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-5">Richard Wrather</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-6">William<lb></lb>
Conyers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-7">Joseph Sparkhall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-8">Thomas White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-9">John Truscott</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-10">Edward Sutton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-11">James Brodie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-12">John Gilbert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-13">John Lee</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-14">John Tranfield</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_n1709-15">William Smith</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-16">Savill Bromley</rs>
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late of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2130">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1656">Laborer</rs>
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, on the Eighteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2131">Parish of St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-17">William Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously did make an Assault, And the<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-18">Saville Bromley</rs>
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then and there had and held in both in Hands of the Value of the of one<lb></lb>
Shilling which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-19">Savill Bromley</rs>
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then and there had and held in both his Hands him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-20">William Smith</rs>
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in and upon the left side of the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-21">William Smith</rs>
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did then and then<lb></lb>
Feloniously strike and beat, therely then and then giving unto him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-22">William Smith</rs>
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with the Broom aforesaid in and upon<lb></lb>
the said left side of side Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-23">William Smith</rs>
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, one mortal Fracture, of which said<lb></lb>
Mortal Fracture he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-24">William Smith</rs>
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, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2132">Parish of Saint James</rs>
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and also at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2133">St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Hospital in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2134">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
from the said Eighteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty first day of the same<lb></lb>
Month in the same Year did languish and languishing did live, on which said Twenty first day of October<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid, in the Hospital aforesaid, at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2135">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2136">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-25">William Smith</rs>
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of the mortal Fracture aforesaid did die <lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-26">Savill Bromley</rs>
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him the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1709-27">William Smith</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously did hill and slay against<lb></lb>
the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity, And that the said Savill Bromley at the<lb></lb>
Time of committing the Felony and Man Slaughter aforesaid, or at any Time since had no Goods on Chattels<lb></lb>
Lands or Tenements within the said Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo2137">Westminster</rs>
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or elshwhere to the Knowledge or Notice of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors,</p>
<p n="1710">In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1657">Coroner</rs>
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, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1710-1">John Pettis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1658">Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors</rs>
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, on the behalf 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 abovementioned</p>
<p n="1711"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1711-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1659">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1712"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1712-1">John Pettis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1660">Foreman</rs>
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