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Twenty sixth day of July
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in the Fourteenth 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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Thomas Prickard
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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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Thomas Andrews
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John
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Wall
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John Merithorp
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Jonathan Jackson
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Joseph Elebeck
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John Covill
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Adam Dunford
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Walter Bannister
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John Nalder
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John Lees
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Joseph Fisher
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Nicholas Bull
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Matthew Wall
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George Beard
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John Hudson
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Paul Carr
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Thomas Osborn
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and
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Frederick Westerline
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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
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Thomas Andrews
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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Thomas Andrews
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a Laborer on the
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said Twenty sixth day of July in the Year aforesaid being at Work upon
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the House of Sir
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George Saville
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situate in
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Leicester Square
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in the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being
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then and there standing, with another Laborer, upon a Scaffold on the
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outside of the said House, at the Height of three Stories, It so happened that
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the said
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Thomas Andrews
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, in throwing down a large piece of Old Lead,
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down off and from the said
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Scaffold upon the Iron Rails in the Front of the said House, by Means
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whereof the said
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Thomas Andrews
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then and there rec
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ed two Wounds
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in and through his Body, of which said mortal Wounds
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>
the said
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Thomas
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Andrews
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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Thomas Andrews
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in
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</
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally casually and by
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lb
>
</
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>
Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise. In Witness
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</
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>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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John Wall
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Foreman of the
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>
</
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>
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in
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>
</
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>
their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals,
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</
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>
the Day Year and Place first above written
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n
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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John Wall
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Foreman
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