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to Wit.
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
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the King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and
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Twentieth day of February in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
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the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the
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an Infant then and
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there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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William Buxton
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John Hall
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John Williams
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David Smart
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John Free
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John Shenley
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Thomas
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Horn
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James Peters
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Thomas Ferrens
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty
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duly chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
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when how and by what Means the said John Bannestercame to his Death doup
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their Oath say, That the said John Bannester on the
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Eighteenth day of February in the
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Year
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aforesaid being in a New built House situate in
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Wimpole Street
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, in the Parish of
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Mary le bon
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in the
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, and the said John Bannester then and there coming
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down the Stairs in the said House, which were unfinished and without any Banisters, It so
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happened that the said John Bannester then and there Accidentally Casually and Misfortune
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fell off and from the said Stairs, being two Stories high, upon and against a Carpenter's Working
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Bench standing on the Ground Floor in the said House, by Means whereof he the said John Bannester
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did then and there by the fall aforesaid receive one Mortal Bruise on the rightside of the Head
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of him the said John Bannester, of which said Mortal Bruise he the said John Bannester from the said
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in the Year aforesaid, at the
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within the Liberty of Westmr.
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in the said
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, until the Nineteenth day of the same Month in the same Year, did languish
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and languishing did live, on which said
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Nineteenth day of February
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in the Year aforesaid, at the said
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said John Bannester of the Mortal
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Bruise aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the
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said John Bannester in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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said
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
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Day Year and Place first above written
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"gender"
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