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<p n="114"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London.</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo96">parish of Saint Mary Somerset</rs>
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in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo97">Queenhith</rs>
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in London aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date29">twenty first day of<lb></lb>
January</rs>
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in the thirty fourth 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="LMCLIC65007_n114-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ33">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo98">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo99">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-3">John Ropher</rs>
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now here lying dead by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-4">William Liddon</rs>
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Robert Benham <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-5">John Millard</rs>
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Christopher<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-6">Percy William Plaskett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-7">Joseph Lee</rs>
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John Pursuid <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-8">Joseph East</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-9">John Fettiplace</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-10">John Henly</rs>
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David<lb></lb>
Roberts <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-11">John Edwards</rs>
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Jonathan Downs Richard Eddells <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-12">Willam Pearly</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-13">William Bayley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo100">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged<lb></lb>
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-14">John Roper</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
death say upon their Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-15">John Roper</rs>
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on the twentieth day of January in the year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being standing near the door of a certain warehouse two stories high belonging to one <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-16">John Welson</rs>
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situate<lb></lb>
on <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo101">Brook's Wharf</rs>
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in the parish and ward aforesaid It so happened that a certain bag of rags then<lb></lb>
and there being in the said Warehouse accidentally casually and by misfortune moved and fell<lb></lb>
against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-17">John Roper</rs>
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By means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-18">John Roper</rs>
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was then and there forced<lb></lb>
from and out of the said Warehouse down and upto and upon the said wharf by means whereof<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-19">John Ropher</rs>
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did then and there receive one mortal bruised in and upon the back part of<lb></lb>
his head of which said mortal bruise the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-20">John Roper</rs>
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did then and there instantly die<lb></lb>
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-21">John Roper</rs>
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in manner<lb></lb>
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not<lb></lb>
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n114-22">William Liddon</rs>
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the foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurrors on behalf 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 first above written.</p>
<p n="115">Willm Liddon<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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