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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Luke in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date432">thirtieth Day of December in the twenty sixth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-3">Mary Simpson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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Joseph Goldsborough Edward Barrett James Coroner <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-6">William Peacock</rs>
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John<lb></lb>
Shang <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-7">William Blake</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-9">Douglass Wire</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-11">Henry Morey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-12">Richard Herne</rs>
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John<lb></lb>
Tubby <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-13">James White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-14">George King</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-15">Thomas Kennell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-16">Francis Nash</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-17">Mary Simpson</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-18">Mary Simpson</rs>
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on the Twenty fifth Day<lb></lb>
of December in the Year aforesaid being in her Apartment in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2673">Golden Lane</rs>
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in the Parish and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid with same Fire burning in an Earthen Pot under her Cloaths It so happened<lb></lb>
That the Linnen Shift which she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-19">Mary Simpson</rs>
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had on and were then and there<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by Misfortune took Fire By, means whereof the Legs, Knees Thighs<lb></lb>
and Hands of her the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-20">Mary Simpson</rs>
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were then and there mortally scorch'd and burnt of<lb></lb>
which said mortal Scorching and Burning she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-21">Mary Simpson</rs>
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from the said twenty<lb></lb>
fifth Day of December in the year aforesaid untill the Twenty sixth Day of the same Month in<lb></lb>
the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and Languishing<lb></lb>
did live on which said Twenty sixth Day of December in the year aforesaid she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-22">Mary Simpson</rs>
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at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Mortal Scorching and<lb></lb>
Burning aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2590-23">Mary Simpson</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune came to her Death</p>
<p n="2591"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2591-1">William Bird</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="2592"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2592-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<p n="2593">Wm Bird<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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