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of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1791">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1792">Workhouse of the Parish of St. Margaret</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1793">Collegiate<lb></lb>
Church of St. Peter , Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1794">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the eighteenth day of July 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty Seventh Year of the Reign on 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_n1641-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ860">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_n1641-2">James Elms</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the Several Jurors whose Names one hereunder 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 our Said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said James Elms came to h is Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath Say that the said James Elms on Saturday last<lb></lb>
theday of July in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
To Wit in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1795">River Thomas</rs>
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near the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1796">nine Elms</rs>
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there going in to bathe himself It so happened that<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said<lb></lb>
James Elms was in the Waters of the said<lb></lb>
River then and there suffocated & drowned<lb></lb>
Of which said Suffocation & Drowning he<lb></lb>
the said James Elms then & there instantly<lb></lb>
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
oath aforesaid do say that the said James<lb></lb>
Elms in manner & by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally casually & by Misfortune time came<lb></lb>
to his Death and not otherwise<lb></lb>
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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his mark</p>
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