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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo1099">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n1279-8">Michl Bryant</rs>
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Sign of the Swan in Upper <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo1100">Mount Street</rs>
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parish of Saint George Hanh. Square<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo1101">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo1102">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourteenth day of July 1794 in the thirty fourth<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="WACWIC65234_n1279-1">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n1279-2">Thomas Stoneham</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written and Seals<lb></lb>
a Fixed<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="WACWIC65234_n1279-3">Thomas Stoneham</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n1279-4">Thomas Stoneham</rs>
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on the thirteenth<lb></lb>
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To<lb></lb>
Wit in the Serpentine River in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo1103">Hyde Park</rs>
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there going in to Cathe<lb></lb>
himself. It so happened that accidentally, casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n1279-5">Thomas Stoneham</rs>
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in the waters of the said River was then<lb></lb>
and there suffocated and drowned; Of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n1279-6">Thomas Stoneham</rs>
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then and there instanlty<lb></lb>
died. And so the Sworn aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n1279-7">Thomas Stoneham</rs>
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in manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came<lb></lb>
to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the said Juror River to this Inquisition <lb></lb>
set their Hands and seals the day Year and place first<lb></lb>
above writting</p>
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W Massey<lb></lb>
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