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<p n="2375"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2469">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2470">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_geo2471">Saint Clement Danes</rs>
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Within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2472">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2473">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty third day of December in the Twenty 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_n2375-2">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_n2375-3">Sarah Cox</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-4">John Might Dent</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-25">Thomas Ravencroft</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-5">William Clarke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-6">Joseph Treble</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-7">Joseph Little</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-8">John Barber</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-9">William Beckenham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-10">Joseph Fletcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-11">Thomas Day</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-12">Benjamin Saunders</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-13">William Stedman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-14">William Herbert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-15">William Bethell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-16">Thomas Baylis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-17">Robert Leeming</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_n2375-18">Sarah Cox</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
her Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-19">Sarah Cox</rs>
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on the Twenty third<lb></lb>
day of December being asleep in a certain Garrett belonging to the Chambers<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-20">Robert Graham</rs>
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Esqr. situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2474">Lincoln's Inn</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and the Wind being very high the<lb></lb>
Stock of Chimneys of the said House were blown down into the Garret<lb></lb>
wherein the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-21">Sarah Cox</rs>
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was sleeping whereby the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-22">Sarah Cox</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there Accidentally Causally and by misfortune received divers<lb></lb>
mortal Bruises in and upon her Body, of which said mortal Bruises<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-23">Sarah Cox</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2375-24">Sarah<lb></lb>
Cox</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and<lb></lb>
by Misfortune came to her Death, and not otherwise</p>
<p n="2376">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroners as<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2376-1">John Wright Dent</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>
mentioned.</p>
<p n="2377"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2377-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="2378"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2378-1">John <obscured></obscured>
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Foreman</rs>
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