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<p n="1525"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1543">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1544">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="1526">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1545">Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1546">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1547">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the third day of September in the twenty eighth<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="WACWIC65228_n1526-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ563">Gentleman</rs>
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, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-13">Elizabeth Bluet</rs>
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an Infant then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-2">John Law</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-3">Abraham Appleton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-4">William Young</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-5">Henry<lb></lb>
Fry</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-6">William Hulme</rs>
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, John Hillem, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-7">Samuel Strudwick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-14">Robert Paton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-8">James Harrison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-15">James Brynnen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-9">John Tomlinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-10">Henry<lb></lb>
Dispain</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-11">James Burch</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 Elizabeth Bluet came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Elizabeth Bluet an<lb></lb>
Infant, of the Age of two years, on the thirtieth day of August<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid, being at Play in the Kitchen of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1526-12">James Baine</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Moody's Gardens, in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, and that there was a Pewter potfull of hot water<lb></lb>
upon a Dresser in the said Kitchen, It so happened that the<lb></lb>
said Elizabeth Bluet the Infant, in her Play pulled down the<lb></lb>
said Pewter pot and not water upon herself, by means whereof the<lb></lb>
said Elizabeth Bluet the Infant was scalded in and upon her<lb></lb>
Face Neck. Shoulders and Stomach, of which said scalding she the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Bluet then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Bluet the<lb></lb>
Infant, in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune, came to her Death and not otherwise</p>
<p n="1527">In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ564">Coroner</rs>
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, as<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1527-1">John Law</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1528"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1528-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ565">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1528-2">John Law</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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