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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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of
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John Rogers
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William Jones
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William Howard
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Joshua Throp
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John Daniel
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Eighteenth Day of
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April in the year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Ten Years or thereabouts and
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being Endeavouring to take hold of a certain Chain called a Drag Chain which was hanging
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to a Waggon then drawing by four Horses along White Chapell Road in the Parish and
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County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
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casually and by Misfortune fell to the Ground and the near
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Hind Wheel of the
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said Waggon did then and there pass upon and over the Breast, Body and Arms of him
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the said
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divers Mortal Bruises in and upon The said Breast Body and Arms Of which said
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Mortal Bruises he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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in Manner and by the
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means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his Death And that
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the said Near Hind
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Weller and is of the Value of Two Shillings and Six pence and the Property and in the
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Possession of Metcalf of Bromley Mills in the
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of
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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Samuel Campion
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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Thos. Phillips
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Saml Campion
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Senr.
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Foreman
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