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<p n="426"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo430">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo431">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n426-8">Michael Bryant</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo432">Sign of the Swan</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo433">Upper Mount Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo434">parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo435">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo436">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twentieth day of February 1795 in the thirty fifth<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="WACWIC65235_n426-1">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ320">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ321">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="WACWIC65235_n426-2">James Edwards</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ322">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written<lb></lb>
and Seals affixed<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="WACWIC65235_n426-3">James Edwards</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n426-4">James Edwards</rs>
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on the eighteenth day<lb></lb>
of February in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid To Wit on the certain piece of Water called the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo437">Serpentine</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo438">Hyde park</rs>
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(then being frozen) being then and there scating It so happened<lb></lb>
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune the Ice gave Way & that he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n426-5">James Edwards</rs>
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fell into the Water and in the said Water was then<lb></lb>
and there suffocated and drowned: Of which said suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n426-6">James Edwards</rs>
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then and there instantly<lb></lb>
died: And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n426-7">James Edwards</rs>
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in manner and by<lb></lb>
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ323">Coroner</rs>
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as the said Jurors have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their hands and Seals the day Year & place above written</p>
<p n="427"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n427-1">Anthy Gell</rs>
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F <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n427-2">Thomas Gray</rs>
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John<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n427-5">Thos Grooma</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n427-3">William Cook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n427-4">Robt Clark</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n428-2">John Bill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n428-6">John Suryer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n428-3">Thomas Wind</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n428-4">Thos. Storer</rs>
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