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<p n="480"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo434">City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo435">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date102">17th day of May 1763</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on an Inquisition taken on View of the Body<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n480-41">John Louch</rs>
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lying Dead in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo436">St.<lb></lb>
Margaret within the City and Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo437">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="481"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n481-1">Richard Rooke</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo438">Cecil Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65203_occ164">Surgeon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65203_occ165">Assistant</rs>
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to Mr.<lb></lb>
Pile, Surgeon to to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo439">Westminster Hospital</rs>
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, on his Oath saith<lb></lb>
That last Friday three weeks <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n481-26">John Louch</rs>
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the deced was<lb></lb>
brought to said Hospital as a Casualty, says that next day<lb></lb>
being Saturday Deponent saw Mr. Pile Examine deced, and<lb></lb>
found a compound Fracture in<del>the</del>
deced right Leg, and a<lb></lb>
considerable Laceration in the Calf of the same Leg<lb></lb>
says that he saw deced every Day afterwards and by<lb></lb>
Mr. Piles directions dressed the Leg, Says that it was found<lb></lb>
necessary to take off the deceds Lag and that the same<lb></lb>
was Yesterday about noon performed by Mr. Pile, depont being presence<lb></lb>
and that Deced died the same Afternoon, and Deponent<lb></lb>
verily believes that the said Fracture occasioned his Death</p>
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<p n="483"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n483-1">Penelope Stokins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65203_occ166">Nurse</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo440">Westminster Hospital</rs>
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on her<lb></lb>
Oath saith that on Friday three weeks the deced was brought<lb></lb>
to said Hospital as a Casualty, with a Broken Leg, says the<lb></lb>
Deced informed her that as he drove his Masters Chariot from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo441">Ranclagh</rs>
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at Night, said friday three Weeks, he met another<lb></lb>
Chariot in the Road near the Sign of the Hand and Colliflower,<lb></lb>
and that he was thrown off his Coach box, and hung by the<lb></lb>
Leg in the Carriage and was dragged a Long way, Says that<lb></lb>
the Night was very Dark and that he did not see the Chariot<lb></lb>
coming towards him until they met. Says that the Leg<lb></lb>
of the deced was cut off yesterday in the said Hospital and<lb></lb>
that he died there in the afternoon.</p>
<p n="484">Severally Sworn the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n484-1">Thos. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65203_occ167">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="485">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n485-1">Penelope Stokins</rs>
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