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<p n="1778"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1745">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1746">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 Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1747">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1748">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1749">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourth day of October 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_n1778-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-2">George Bigg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-3">James Whitby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-4">John Hardy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-5">John<lb></lb>
Gayward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-6">Dent Jaques</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-7">William Gwynn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-8">Joseph Hibbert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-14">Thomas<lb></lb>
Ellam</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-9">James Tutton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-10">Jacob Woodward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-11">Richard Exton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-12">Hugh<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1778-13">John Strutt</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 Woman unknown came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman unknow on<lb></lb>
the second day of October in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned<lb></lb>
and suffocated in a certain Ditch full of water on the south side of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1750">Willow Walk</rs>
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within the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1751">Parish of St. George</rs>
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Square</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid that no marks<lb></lb>
of violence appeared on the Body but how or by what<lb></lb>
means the said woman unknown became Drowned and<lb></lb>
suffocated no Evidence there of doth appear to the Jurors.</p>
<p n="1779">In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1779-1">George Rigg</rs>
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Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors on the behalf of himself an the rest of his<lb></lb>
Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1780"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1780-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ645">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1781"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1781-1">George Bigg</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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