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<p n="2311"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2389">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2390">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2391">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="WACWIC65230_geo2392">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2393">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Ninth day of December in the thirty first<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="WACWIC65230_n2311-1">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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-2">John Sims</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-3">William Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-4">Thomas Dowling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-19">John Bune</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-5">Magnus Law</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-6">John Manson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-7">Daniel Sutherland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-8">Thomas Patrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-9">George Finch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-10">Thomas<lb></lb>
Summerfield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-11">John Adkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-12">John Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-13">Joseph Winter</rs>
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, James Reyer, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-14">James<lb></lb>
Duncan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-15">Thomas Waddell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-20">John Rewman</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="WACWIC65230_n2311-16">John Sims</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say That on the Eighth day of December in the<lb></lb>
year aforesaid the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-17">John Sims</rs>
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was found Drowned and suffocated in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2394">River Thames</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2395">Hungerford Stairs</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2396">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no marks of Violence appeared on<lb></lb>
the Body but now or by what means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2311-18">John Sims</rs>
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became drowned and<lb></lb>
suffocated no Evidence thereof both appear to the Jurors</p>
<p n="2312">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2312-1">William Jones</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 Presence have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition at their Hands and Seals the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned</p>
<p n="2313"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2313-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ919">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="2314"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2314-1">Wm. Jones</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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