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<p n="2416"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2523">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2524">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2525">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_geo2526">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2527">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Thirtieth 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_n2416-2">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_n2416-3">Mary West</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-4">David Watts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-26">Daniel Parslow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-5">Harry Laurance</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-6">Martin Platts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-7">George Gray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-8">John Field</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-9">Joseph Stenson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-10">John Ellsworth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-11">Benjamin Croydon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-12">David Leslie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-25">Joseph Yordley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-13">John Coleman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-14">Thomas Dawson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-15">Peter<lb></lb>
Wilkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-16">Edward Baker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-17">William Darby</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-27">Ailking Gilbert</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_n2416-18">Mary West</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty eighth day of December<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-19">Mary West</rs>
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being alone in her Lodging Room or<lb></lb>
Apartment in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-20">John Nash</rs>
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, situate in Stanhope Street in the<lb></lb>
said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo2528">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid and<lb></lb>
being weak and infirm, and sitting near the Fire It so happened that the Cloaths which<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-21">Mary West</rs>
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had on her Body Accidentally causally and by Misfortune took fire,<lb></lb>
by means whereof she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-22">Mary West</rs>
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was then and there burnt in and upon her<lb></lb>
Head and great part of her Body, of which said burning she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-23">Mary West</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2416-24">Mary West</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally in<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise</p>
<p n="2417">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2417-1">David Watts</rs>
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. Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="2418"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2418-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="2419"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n2419-1">David Watt</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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