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<p n="1579"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1244">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1245">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="1580">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1246">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1247">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date303">Thirty first day of July</rs>
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in the Thirteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-2">James Porter</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-3">William Isles</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-4">Thomas Plant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-5">George Bartlett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-6">Thomas Stanley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-99">Charles Powvey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-7">John Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-8">William Axford</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-9">Jarvis Littlefear</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-10">John Beck</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-11">Robert Turnbull</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-12">Rice Evors</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-35">John Chewton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-13">James Porter</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-14">James Porter</rs>
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on the Sixth day of July in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1248">Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at a certain Place called<lb></lb>
Milbank near to the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1249">River of Thames</rs>
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being walking along a Plank of Wood laid from a Coal Lighter in the said River<lb></lb>
to a certain Dock belonging to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-15">William Hoare</rs>
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Coal Merchant at Milbank aforesaid with a Lack of Coals on his<lb></lb>
Back it so happened that in walking along the said Plank his Feet slipped by reason whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-16">James<lb></lb>
Porter</rs>
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accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from off the said Plank with the said Lack of Coals into the<lb></lb>
Water there by means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-17">James Porter</rs>
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by the force of the fall and weight of the Lack of Coals did<lb></lb>
then and there receive One Mortal Fracture on the Right Leg of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-18">James Porter</rs>
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, of which said Mortal<lb></lb>
Fracture he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-19">James Porter</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1250">St. Margaret</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at Westminster<lb></lb>
Hospital in James Street being there carried did Languish and Languishing did Live from the said Sixth day of July<lb></lb>
to the Thirty first day of the same Month in the Year aforesaid on which said Thirty first day of July in the Year aforesaid at<lb></lb>
the Hospital aforesaid he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-21">James Porter</rs>
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of the said Mortal Fracture and of a Fever occasioned thereby did Dye. And<lb></lb>
to the Jurors aforesaid on their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-22">James Porter</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise, and that the said Lack of Coals was moving<lb></lb>
to the Death of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1580-23">James Porter</rs>
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and is of the Value of One Shilling but whose Property the said Sack of Coals were<lb></lb>
does not appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the<lb></lb>
Place first above mentioned.</p>
<p n="1581"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1581-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ369">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1581-45">Willim Ilis</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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