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<note type="authorial" place="margin">T Shelton<lb></lb>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
John within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo230">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo231">Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo232">County of Surrey</rs>
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on the fifth day of February in the<lb></lb>
thirty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great<lb></lb>
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-4">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo233">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo234">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the<lb></lb>
Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-5">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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now here lying dead by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-6">Thomas Stacy</rs>
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Thomas Picton William<lb></lb>
Clark <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-7">John Small</rs>
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Henry Jice <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-9">William Atkinson</rs>
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David<lb></lb>
Wilson Joseph Borraman and Thomas Agar good and lawful men of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo235">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo236">Southwark</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
who being now here duly chosen swom and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in<lb></lb>
What manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-12">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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came to her death say upon their Oath that the said<lb></lb>
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and divers other persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknow in the third day of<lb></lb>
February in the year aforesaid being going to a certain palace of publick Amusement know by<lb></lb>
the name of the little Theatre in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo237">the Haymarket</rs>
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situate in the parish of Saint Martin in the field<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo238">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-14">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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and the said other persons being in<lb></lb>
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leading to the pit of the said play house It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-15">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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and driver of the said other Persons accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down a flight of steps<lb></lb>
in the said passage upon one another by means where of and by the excessive heat and pressure the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-16">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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was then and there suffocated and smothered of which said suffocation<lb></lb>
and smothering the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-17">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-18">Elizabeth Brandrum</rs>
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in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not other wise. In Witness<lb></lb>
where of as well the said coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n269-19">Thomas Stacy</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition sat their hands<lb></lb>
and seals the day year and place frist above written.</p>
<p n="270">Thos Stacy<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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