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of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo138">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 the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-1">Thomas Jones</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo139">Sign of the Bricklayers Arms</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo140">Duke Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo141">Grosvener Square</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo142">parish of St<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo143">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo144">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twentieth day of January 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ67">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ68">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-3">Charles Bates</rs>
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an Infant then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-4">Charles Bates</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-5">Charles Bates</rs>
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being of the age of two Years and<lb></lb>
six Months only on the fifteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being alone in a certain Apartment situate in the parish & Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid It so happened that the apparel which the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-6">Charles<lb></lb>
Bates</rs>
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then & there had on his Body accidentally casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune took fire by reason whereof & from the Smoke & flame<lb></lb>
arising from the said fire he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-7">Charles Bates</rs>
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was then and<lb></lb>
there suffocated & burnt: Of which said Suffocating & Burning he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-8">Charles Bates</rs>
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on the seventeenth day of January<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n170-9">Charles Bates</rs>
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in manner & by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune, came<lb></lb>
to his death, and not otherwise</p>
<p n="171"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="172"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n172-1">Anthy. Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ69">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n173-2">Thos. Foster</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n173-3">John Sibthorp</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n173-5">Jas. Brittain</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n173-4">John Fisher</rs>
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<p n="174"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-7">Wheatley Vaughan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-2">Wm Bennett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-3">Willm Irons</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-8">Geo: Hutchinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-4">John Donaldson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-5">Thos. Hall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n174-6">Thos Rowe</rs>
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