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of Westminster</rs>
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In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1672">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="WACWIC65237_n1548-1">John Collett</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1673">Sign of the Roe Buck</rs>
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John</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1677">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, the Seventeenth day of July 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1548-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ804">Esq.</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1548-3">Thomas Barber</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Juror whose Names are here under written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said Thomas Barber came to h is Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Thomas Barber on the sixteenth day<lb></lb>
of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty aforesaid To Wit in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1679">River Thames</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there going in to bath himself It So happened that<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said<lb></lb>
Thomas Barber was in the Waters of the sd. River<lb></lb>
then and there suffocated and drowned: Of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said<lb></lb>
Thomas Barber then and there instantly<lb></lb>
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
Thomas Barber in manner & by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his death and not otherwise.</p>
<p n="1549"> In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
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