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Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon
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the Oath of
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George Gray
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John Field
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Joseph Stenson
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John Ellsworth
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Benjamin Croydon
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David Leslie
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Joseph Yordley
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John Coleman
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Thomas Dawson
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Peter
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Wilkinson
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Edward Baker
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William Darby
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Ailking Gilbert
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Mary West
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came to
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her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty eighth day of December
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in the Year aforesaid the said
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Mary West
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being alone in her Lodging Room or
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Apartment in the Dwelling House of
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John Nash
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, situate in Stanhope Street in the
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said Parish of
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid and
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being weak and infirm, and sitting near the Fire It so happened that the Cloaths which
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the said
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Mary West
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had on her Body Accidentally causally and by Misfortune took fire,
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by means whereof she the said
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Mary West
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was then and there burnt in and upon her
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Head and great part of her Body, of which said burning she the said
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Mary West
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then
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and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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that the said
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in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally in
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Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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said
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David Watts
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. Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and
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the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands
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and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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David Watt
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Foreman
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