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Richard Williams
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Richard Rawlins
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Edward Winwood
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Andrew Christy
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John Casting
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Thomas Smith
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Philip Owen
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Thomas Lewis
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James Blake
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John Cochran
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Caleb Smith
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Thomas Standish
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John Mayne
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Thomas Simson
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Thomas Doswell
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Wm. Nanson
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John Brodstock
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and
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John Hill
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and
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charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what means the said
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Thomas Watson
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the fifth day of October
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in the Year aforesaid the said
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Thomas Watson
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a Bricklayer being working at a certain House
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belonging to Mr. Garnier, situate in
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Jermyn Street
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
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and County aforesaid, and that the said
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Thomas Watson
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was then and there Walking upon a
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certain Board on the Outside of the said House, on which the Workmen used to walk, being
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four Stories high, It so happened that the said Board, on which the said
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Thomas Watson
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stood,
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shipped and the Brick Work which supported the same giving way the said
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Thomas Watson
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that
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and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down into a Back Yard belonging to the House
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adjoyning Westward, in the Occupation of
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James Stephens
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Surgeon, by Means whereof the said
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Thomas
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Watson
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did then and there, by the fall aforesaid, receive divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head
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and Body of him the said
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Thomas Watson
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, of which said Mortal Bruises he the said
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Thomas Watson
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>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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>
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>
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Thomas Watson
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally casually and by misfortune
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came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
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>
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>
the said John Mealy Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest
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of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the
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>
Day Year and Place first above written
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Tho Prickard
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Coroner
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.
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John Mealy
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Foreman
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