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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that<lb></lb>
is to say at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1616">parish of Saint Nicholas Acorns</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1617">Ward of Langbourn</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date128">fourteenth day of December in the thirty<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
eighth year of the reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth</rs>
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before<lb></lb>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1618">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1619">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-4">Robert Clark</rs>
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now here lying<lb></lb>
dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-5">James Davies</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ781">younger</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-6">Robert Bainton</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-9">James Simth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-12">William Blakes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-13">William Collins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-14">James Kirkpatrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-15">Conway Joyce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-16">Thomas Simon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-17">Joseph Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-18">Robert Scott</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-19">Thomas Howes</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1620">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our<lb></lb>
said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-20">Robert Clark</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
to his death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-21">Robert Clark</rs>
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on the twelfth day<lb></lb>
of December in the year aforesaid being going down certain stairs leading<lb></lb>
to a cellar in a house there situate called the Phoenix fire office It so happened<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-22">Robert Clark</rs>
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accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down the<lb></lb>
said stairs to and against a certain upright piece of wood in a certain wall<lb></lb>
at the bottom of the said Stairs by means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-23">Robert Clark</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
then and there receive one mortal wound in and upon his head of which said<lb></lb>
mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-24">Robert Clark</rs>
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did then and there die-And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1666-25">Robert Clark</rs>
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in manner<lb></lb>
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his<lb></lb>
death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James<lb></lb>
Davies the younger the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ782">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
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in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day<lb></lb>
year and place first above written</p>
<p n="1667"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1667-1">James Davies</rs>
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