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<p n="1519"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo1836">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo1837">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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} to wit.</note>
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<p n="1520">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at The <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo1838">Parish of Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo1839">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo1840">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Fourth day of August 1792 in the thirty second<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="WACWIC65232_n1520-1">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ1377">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ1378">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="WACWIC65232_n1520-2">John Henry Simpson</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ1379">Infant</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ1380">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-3">Francis Wright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-4">James Grover</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-5">Henry Sumpter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-6">John Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-7">Thomas Horwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-8">Richard Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-9">John Holmes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-10">Henry Meddon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-11">John Bates</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-12">Henry Rowed</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-13">James Barron</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-14">Philip Dixon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-24">Richard<lb></lb>
Waggon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-25">Richard Poppell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-15">John Adams</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-16">John Rook</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-17">Richard Jubb</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65232_n1520-18">John Henry Simpson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-19">John Henry Simpson</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
Second day of August, in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty aforesaid To Wit in a certain Canal near unto the dwelling<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-20">Thomas Simpson</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ1381">Father</rs>
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of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-21">John Henry<lb></lb>
Simpson</rs>
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situate near the water waks commonly called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo1841">Chelsea<lb></lb>
Waterworks</rs>
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at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid, was found<lb></lb>
donuend and suffocated, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-22">John Henry Simpson</rs>
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had no Macks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how<lb></lb>
or by what means he became drowned and suffocated, no<lb></lb>
Evidence thereof detle appeal to the Jurors.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n1520-23">Francis Wright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ1382">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their<lb></lb>
Presence leave to this Inquisition set their hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the day Year and Place abovewritten</p>
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