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of
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
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Twenty seventh day of September
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in the Thirteenth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Edward Condon
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas
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Watson
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John Wotton
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John Bruce
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Henry Hains
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William Pennyfold
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John Blunt
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George Powell
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James Marchant
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John Weldall
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Moses Phillips
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John Pohl
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Francis Hunter
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Richard Williams
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Andrew Shepherd
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John Foster
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,
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and
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John Marzinghy
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said Edward Condon came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Condon a Laborer on the
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said Twenty seventh day of September in the Year aforesaid being at Work
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upon the
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in
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Windmill Street
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in the Parish aforesaid within
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the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there standing upon a
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Scaffold on the inside of the said Building near the Skylight It so happen'd
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that the Ladder which supported the said Scaffold then and there broke,
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and that the said
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Edward Condon
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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fell down unto and upon the Floor of the said
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Tennis Court
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, by Reason
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whereof the said Edward Condon did then and there receive divers mortal
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Bruises in the Body, & Fractures in and upon the Right Arm, and the
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left Thigh of him the said Edward Condon, of which said mortal Bruises
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and Fractures he the said Edward Condon then and there instantly died.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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Edward Condon in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise.
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Thomas
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Watson
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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
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Hands and Seals, the 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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Thos. Watson
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inst
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interp
inst
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Foreman
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p
>
</
div1
>
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