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<p n="1627"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo2002">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo2003">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_geo2004">Parish of Saint James</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo2005">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo2006">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Third day of September 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_n1627-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ1085">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 Lydia Oskford then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-2">Michael Munday</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-3">John Barker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-4">John Hunter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-5">Joseph Featherby</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-7">Thomas Thompson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-8">James Crump</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-9">John<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-10">John Marlborough</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-11">John Singleton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-12">James Howell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-13">David Henderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-14">Thomas Denton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-15">Simon Willson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-16">John Thompson</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-883">George Starcay</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-17">John Roberts</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_n1627-18">Lydia Oskford</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Lydia Oskford on the second<lb></lb>
day of September in the Year aforesaid, being in a House, then repairing, in Cork<lb></lb>
Street in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and coming<lb></lb>
down Stairs in the Dark (being a Well Stair Case) It so happened, that the said<lb></lb>
Lydia Oskford then and there, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down<lb></lb>
from the said Well Stairs Case unto the bottom thereof and thereby then and<lb></lb>
there, received divers Fractures and Bruises in and upon the Head Arms<lb></lb>
Thighs, and Body of her the said Lydia Oskford, of which said Mortal Fractures<lb></lb>
and Bruises She the said Lydia Oskford then and there did. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say That the said Lydia<lb></lb>
Oskford in manner and by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune, came to her Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1627-19">Michael Munday</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ1086">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors,<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the Rest of his Fellows, in their Presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands, and Seals, the Day, year, and Place, above<lb></lb>
written.</p>
<p n="1628"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1628-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n1628-2">Michael Munday</rs>
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