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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
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fourteenth day of April
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in the Second Year of the Reign
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four Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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His Majesty's Coroner for the said City
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and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Thomas - Arnold
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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William Hanover
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William Davis
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William Plaster
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William Nicholas
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John Atkins
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Joseph Woolford
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George
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Field
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John Blatch
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Robert Bunn
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william Lockey
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Ralph Woodman
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John Smither
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John Morrison
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George
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Howell
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and
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Robert Horsley
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then
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and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how and by what means the
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came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said
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on the tenth day
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of April in the Year aforesaid was sitting upon a certain Dray laden with an empty Butt and Firkin and driving three Horses
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drawing the said Dray, the Property of Burnaby Green Brower, along the Kings Highway from
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Chelsea
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in the
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towards the Brewhouse of the said Burnaby Green, situate in the said Parish of
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St. Margaret within the liberty
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of Westminster
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in the said County, And that the said
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near Chelsea WaterWorks did Whip the Shaft Horse harnessed to the
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said Dray, by means whereof the said Shaft Horse immediately sprung forward, and the Tug Pins which were to secure and confine the said
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Shaft Horse within the Shafts of the said Dray, being then unfortunately dropt out of their Places: It so happened that upon such Springing
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forward of the said Shaft Horse, the Shafts of the said Dray did then and there violently fall to the Ground, and the said
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Thomas Arnold
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was
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thereby then and there forced to the Ground, and the near Wheel of the said Dray did then and there casually accidentally and by
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Misfortune instantly pass over the Body and Loins of the said
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Thomas Arnold
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, Giving to him the said
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Thomas Arnold
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divers Mortal Bright
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in his Body, of which he languished from the said tenth day of April in the year aforesaid, until the thirteenth day of the same Month in the
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same year, On which last mentioned Day and Year the said
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Thomas Arnold
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at a certain Hospital called the
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Westminster Infirmary
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situate in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did Dye: And that the said near Wheel of the said Dray did move
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to the Death of the said
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Thomas Arnold
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, and is of the Value of ten shillings and six pence, and the Property and in the Possession of the said
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Burnaby
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Green
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. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said
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John Granger
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Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their
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presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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John Granger
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and
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Forman
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