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By adjournmt. on Thursday the
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Order for Mr. Higgs
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to pay £72.12s.6d to Edward
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An Account of Inquisitions being produced before this Court by
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. one of the Coroners of this County therein mentioning the same to be taken on View of
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dead Bodies in the said County since the thirteenth day of May 1755 and chargeable on
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the said County pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the twenty fifth year of
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King George the second which Account begins on the fifteenth day of May aforesd.
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and ends on the fifteenth day of October last therein mentioning the dead Bodies
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viewed to be sixty four in number and that there is due to the said Coroner the
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Sum of Seventy two pounds twelve shillings and six pence for his Coroners Fee
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and for the number of Miles by him travelled on Account of taking the said
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Inquisitions And it appearing unto this Court by Writing under the Hands of
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for the said County that they had examined
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the said Account and that there is due to the said Edward Umfreville the
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aforesaid Sum of Seventy two pounds twelve shillings and six pence It is
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thereupon Ordered by this Court that Mr.
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this County do pay the said Sum of Seventy two pounds twelve shillings
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and six pence unto the said
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in full of his said Demand
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whose Receipt together with this Order shall be a sufficient Discharge
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to the said
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By adjournmt. on Thursday the
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twenty third day of October
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December
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1755
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to pay £31.9s.0d to
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George Grew
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on Account of
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taking Inquisitions
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out of the Coroners of this County therein mentioning the same to be taken on View of
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Dead Bodies in the said County since the first day of July 1755 and chargeable on the
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said County pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the twenty fifth year of the
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reign of King George the second which Account begins on the first day of July
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aforesaid and ends on the twelfth day of October last therein mentioning the
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dead Bodies viewed to be twenty five in Number and that there is due to the
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said Coroner the Sum of thirty one pounds and nine shillings for his Coroners
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Fee and for the Number of Miles by him travelled on Account of taking
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the said Inquisitions And it appearing unto this Court by Writing under the
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hands of
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the said Account and that there is due to the said Coroner the aforesaid Sum of
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thirty one pounds and nine shillings It is thereupon Ordered by this Court
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that Mr.
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John Higgs
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of this County do pay the said Sum of thirty
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one pounds and nine shillings unto the said Coroner in full of his said Demand
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whose Receipt together with this Order shall be a sufficient Discharge to
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the said
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