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<p n="374"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo420">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo421">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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. to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo422">Parish of Saint Margaret</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo423"> Collegiate Church of St. Peter</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo424">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo425">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourteenth day of March in the twenty fifth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ235">Gentleman, Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-2">Thomas James</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-3">John Burgess</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-4">Thomas Gyde</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-5">Henry Drake</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-6">Abraham Belcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-2231">William Keattey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-7">Thomas Munday</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-223">Matthew Temple</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-8">Timothy Edwards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-9">James Brown</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-10">Matthew Sweet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-11">Aaron Loton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-12">William Eaden</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="WACWIC65225_n374-13">Thomas James</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, <lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-14">Thomas James</rs>
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on the thirteenth day of March in the year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being Skaiting upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo426">Canal in St. James's Park</rs>
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in the Parish and County aforesaid, It so happened<lb></lb>
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the<lb></lb>
See then and there broke, and the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-15">Thomas James</rs>
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fell into the said Canal, and in the Water therein was<lb></lb>
then and there suffocated and Drowned, of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-16">Thomas James</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-17">Thomas James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and y Misfortune came to his death, and not<lb></lb>
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n374-18">John Burgess</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ236">Foreman</rs>
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of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="375"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n375-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="376"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n376-1">John Burgess</rs>
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