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<p n="1962"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1539">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1540">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1541">Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1542">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1543">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date388">Seventh day of October</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_n1962-1">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_n1962-2">Thomas Gray</rs>
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a Labourer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-3">William<lb></lb>
Stratford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-4">John Mitchell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-88">William Oare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-5">Alexander Lane</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-6">Edward Wiggins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-7">George Mills</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-8">Paul Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-9">Richard Bunney</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-55">Benjamin Roads</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-10">Charles Kither</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-11">John<lb></lb>
Ansell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-12">Robert Watson</rs>
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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_n1962-13">Thomas Gray</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_n1962-14">Thomas Gray</rs>
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a Laborer on the<lb></lb>
said Seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Barge<lb></lb>
leaden with Cork, upon the River Thomas at Fletcher's Wharf in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there<lb></lb>
employed with other Men to unload the said Barge It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-16">Thomas<lb></lb>
Gray</rs>
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and from the<lb></lb>
said Barge into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1544">River Thames</rs>
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, and in the Water and Mud, was then<lb></lb>
and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-17">Thomas Gray</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-18">Thomas<lb></lb>
Gray</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1962-19">William<lb></lb>
Stratford</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the<lb></lb>
rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1963"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1963-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ467">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1964"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1964-26">Wm. Stratford</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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