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<p n="956"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo772">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo773">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo774">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo775">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo776">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date193">Fifteenth day of July</rs>
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in the Eleventh Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-2">Samuel Davies</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Andrews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-4">John Allen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-5">William Flowers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-6">James Mc. Intosh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-7">Thomas Rider</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-8">John Carter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-9">Edward Bailey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-10">James Jobbins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-11">Joseph Swain</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-12">William Stradling</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-13">Richard Beedle</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-14">Henry Beauchamp</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-15">Samuel Davies</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-16">Samuel Davies</rs>
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on the Fourteenth<lb></lb>
day of July in the Year aforesaid, going in the Serpentine River in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo777">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, there to bath himself<lb></lb>
It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-17">Samuel Davies</rs>
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was in the Waters of the said River then and there<lb></lb>
suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-18">Samuel Davies</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-19">Samuel Davies</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n956-20">Thomas<lb></lb>
Andrews</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="957"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n957-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ264">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="958"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n958-47">Thos. Andrews</rs>
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Foreman}</p>
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