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An Inquisition Indented taken for our <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the King at London that<lb></lb>
is to say at the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo83">Saint Giles without Cripplegate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo84">Ward of Cripplegate</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date17">twenty eighth day of January in the thirty seventh<lb></lb>
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain</rs>
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and so forth<lb></lb>
before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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Gentelman <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ33">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo86">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo87">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-4">James Bird</rs>
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now here lying dead<lb></lb>
by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-5">Josiah Harvey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-6">Clement Poole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-7">Joseph Reynolds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-8">Charles Webb</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-9">John Hull</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-10">William Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-11">John Hamilton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-12">Robert Piercy</rs>
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Hodge, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-13">Thomas Kemble</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-16">William Blake</rs>
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, & <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-17">William Walbanke</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the City of<lb></lb>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-18">James Bird</rs>
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came to his death<lb></lb>
say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-19">James Bird</rs>
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on the twenty seventh day of January in<lb></lb>
the year aforesaid being driving a certain waggon drawn by four horses from and out<lb></lb>
of a certain yard there situate belonging to <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-20">Felice Calvert</rs>
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and Company into a certain<lb></lb>
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and King's common highway there called <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo90">Whitecross street</rs>
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and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-21">James Bird</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being between the said Waggon and the gateway of the said yard while the said<lb></lb>
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was passing out of the said yard as aforesaid It so happened that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-22">James Bird</rs>
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accidentally casually and by misfortune was pressed between the Shaft of<lb></lb>
the said Waggon and the Wall of the said gateway by means whereof the said James<lb></lb>
Bird did then and there receive a mortal bruise in and upon his belly of which<lb></lb>
said mortal bruise he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-23">James Bird</rs>
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did then and there instantly die and so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-24">James Bird</rs>
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in manner and by<lb></lb>
the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and<lb></lb>
not otherwise And that the shaft of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-25">James Bird</rs>
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and is of the value of one shilling and<lb></lb>
the property of and in the possession ofSmith and Company of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo91">Islington</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n85-26">Josiah Harvey</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ35">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of<lb></lb>
his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day<lb></lb>
year and place first abovewritten.<lb></lb>
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<p n="86"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n86-1">Josiah Harvey</rs>
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