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<p n="709"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo669">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo670">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="WACWIC65208_geo671">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo672">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo673">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date136">Twenty fourth day of May</rs>
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in the Eighth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-47">Susanna Innes</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-2">William Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-3">William Wray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-4">William Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-5">John Haynes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-88">George Tapper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-6">Samuel Floyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-7">James<lb></lb>
Norris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-66">Samuel Smallman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-8">John Coats</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-55">Richard Scrase</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-9">Robert Holland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-10">Robert Potter</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-11">Francis Toplady</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-12">James Whalley</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 Susanna Innes came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
the said Susanna Innes Servant to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-22">Bernard Perny</rs>
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, going into the Garden or<lb></lb>
Place behind the House of the said Bernard Perny to empty a Chamber pot,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo674">Parish of St Mary Lambeth</rs>
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in the County of Surry, and then and there<lb></lb>
lifting up a small line which was (unknown to the said Susanna Innes) fixed<lb></lb>
to the Tri of a certain Gun or Blunderbuss charged with Gunpowder and<lb></lb>
leaden Bullets, in the Larder on the back part of the House of the said Bernard<lb></lb>
Perny, (which said Larder and Garden had been several times broke open and<lb></lb>
Robbed) It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said<lb></lb>
Gun or Blunderbuss, so loaded and charged as aforesaid, went off and was<lb></lb>
discharged, and she the said Susanna Innes by means of the Discharge of<lb></lb>
the said Blunderbuss as aforesaid, did then and there require one mortal<lb></lb>
Fracture in and upon her left Arm, of which said mortal Fracture she the said<lb></lb>
Susanna Innes from the said fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid until the twenty-<lb></lb>
third day of the same Month and Year at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo675">St George's Hospital</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo676">Parish of St<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid dis languish and<lb></lb>
languishing did live, on which said Twenty third day of May in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
she the said Susanna Innes at the Hospital aforesaid, of the mortal Fracture aforesaid<lb></lb>
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
the said Susanna Innes, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n709-13">William Jones</rs>
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Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in<lb></lb>
their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="710"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n710-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ213">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="711"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n711-1">Wm Jones</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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