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City and Liberty of
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An Inquisition Indented for our Sovereign Lord
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the King at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the City of
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, the Eighth day of March in the Sixth Year of the Reign
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of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France
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and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before
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on view of the Body of
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then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of
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Henry Friday
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James Dunn
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Robert Bray
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John Banks
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Silvester Freeman
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William Whitehead
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George Hewett
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Robert Gildon
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, and John Lomus
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly
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Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how, and by what means
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the said
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John Gold
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Came to his Death, do upon their Oath say That,
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the said
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John Gold
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on the first day of March (at Night) in the Year aforesaid, being walking
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in a certain Place called three boney Walk, in the Parish of
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, in the County
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of Surry, It so happened that the said
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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did then and there fall upon and over a quantity of Bricks and Rubbish, being part of an
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old Brick Wall, lying in the footway, by reason whereof he the said
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did then and there
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the Right Arm of
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him the said
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John Gold
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near his Body, of which said mortal Fracture he the said
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from the said
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first day of March in the Year aforesaid, until the Seventh day of the same Month and Year, at the
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Westminster Hospital
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, in the Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid,
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did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventh day of March in the Year
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aforesaid, he the said
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John Gold
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at the Hospital aforesaid , of the said Mortal Fracture, did die.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said
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in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, came to
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his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
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said
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John Doughty
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of
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his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the
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Day Year and Place first abovewritten
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Foreman
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