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<p n="62"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo73">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo74">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="63">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo75">Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields</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="WACWIC65226_geo76">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo77">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourth day of January in the twenty sixth<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="WACWIC65226_n63-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ45">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="WACWIC65226_n63-2">Alexander Anderson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-3">Charles Wright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-209">Edward Pelch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-4">John Simmons</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-5">William<lb></lb>
Payn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-6">John Waller</rs>
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, James Ingels, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-7">William Wrench</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-8">William<lb></lb>
Richards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-9">Joseph Vernon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-10">Joseph Rudge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-11">Joseph Tompkins</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-12">Samuel Bonney</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-13">Thomas Bradley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-88">William Tremmels</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-14">Thomas<lb></lb>
Graham</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-15">Robert Turnbull</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="WACWIC65226_n63-16">Alexander Anderson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-17">Alexander Anderson</rs>
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not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted, on the Third day of January in the Year aforesaid, at<lb></lb>
the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to wit,<lb></lb>
into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo78">River Thames</rs>
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there did cast and there himself by<lb></lb>
means of which said casting and throwing, he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-18">Alexander Anderson</rs>
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in the Waters of the said River was<lb></lb>
then and there suffocated and drowned, of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-19">Alexander Anderson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there instantly died, And so the Jurors aforesaid,<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-20">Alexander<lb></lb>
Anderson</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid, not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
did drown and kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n63-21">Charles Wright</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf<lb></lb>
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="64"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n64-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ46">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="65"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n65-1">Chas. Wright</rs>
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