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City and Liberty
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of
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in the
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to wit.
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King at the
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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Westminster
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in the
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County of Middlesex
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, the Thirtieth day of December in the Thirty Second
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
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Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas
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Prickard
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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View of the Body of
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James Cheyney
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then and there
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lying dead
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, upon
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the Oath of
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James Nelson
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Thomas Cupp
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Phillip Thomas
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Matthew
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Emmerson
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Francis Engleheart
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John Mattem
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Joseph Heggs
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Harmon Dyson
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Alexander Mutchell
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Joseph Sanders
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Alexander
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Henderson
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and
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John Mackle
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said James Cheyney came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Cheyney on the Twenty
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seventh day of December in the Year aforesaid was in a certain Stable in
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Carrington Mews
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in the said
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Parish of St. George Hanover Square
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within the
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Liberty and County aforesaid and there with a Cane was beating a certain Bay Horse
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standing in a Stall, upon which the said Bay Horse with both his hinder Feet
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strick the deceased upon his Stomach and that the said
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James Cheyney
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by much
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st
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ing then and these received one mortal Bruise in and upon his Stomach
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of which said Mortal Bruise he the said
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James Cheyney
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at the Parish Liberty
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and County aforesaid from the said Twenty Seventh day of December in the Year
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aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the same Month and Year did languish
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and languishing did live on which said Twenty ninth day of December in the Year
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aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid he the said
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James
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Cheyney
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of the mortal Burise aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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James Cheyney
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in manner and
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by the Means aforesaid came to his Death and not otherwise
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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said
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James Nelson
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Foreman
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of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and
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the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set
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their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned
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Tho Prickard
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