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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1491">parish of Saint Catherine Cree</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1492">ward of Aldgate</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date120">fourth day of November in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the third<del>the third</del>
King of Great Britain and so forth</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-30">Thomas<lb></lb>
Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ701">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1493">City of London</rs>
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and Borough<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1494">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-3">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-4">William Dobbins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-5">George Shuter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-6">Richard Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-7">Joseph Browning</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-8">Robert Holland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-10">Joseph Baguley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-11">John Halsey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-13">William Broad</rs>
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, John Haycroft,<lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-15">Henry Looker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-16">Richard Tucker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-17">Benjamin Rankin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-18">Birkehead Hitchcook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-19">William Hudson</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-20">John Jackson</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1495">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-21">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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came to her death<lb></lb>
say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-22">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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an infant about the age of three<lb></lb>
years on the thirty first day of October in the year aforesaid being in a certain room<lb></lb>
in the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-23">James Gibbs</rs>
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there situate wherein was a fire It so happened<lb></lb>
that the Cloaths which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-24">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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then had on her person accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune caught fire by means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-25">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
then and there mortally burned in and upon the left side of her body of which<lb></lb>
said mortal burning she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-26">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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from the said thirty first day<lb></lb>
of October in the year aforesaid until the third day of November in the same year<lb></lb>
at the parish and ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1496">London</rs>
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aforesaid did languish and languishing<lb></lb>
did two and on the same day and year last aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1497">London</rs>
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aforesaid she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-27">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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of the said mortal burning did die-And so<lb></lb>
the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-28">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune<lb></lb>
came to her death and not otherwise-In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ702">Coroner</rs>
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as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1551-29">William Dobbins</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ703">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands<lb></lb>
and seals the day year and place first above written<lb></lb>
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