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in the Twelfth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Prickard
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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George Clarke
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a Laborer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Mason
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David Lecount
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John Coates
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Thomas Carter
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Edward Martin
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Richard Burton
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James Urquhart
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said
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George Clarke
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on the Twenty-
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third day of February in the Year aforesaid being upon a certain Ladder
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and Lighting a Lamp in
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Somerset Street
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in the County aforesaid, It so
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happened that the Ladder, on which the said
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was standing,
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turned round, and that the said
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then and there Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune, off and from the said Ladder, fell down and
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strick upon certain Iron Rails, whereby the said
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did then
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and there receive one Mortal Wound in and upon his left Leg, of which
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said mortal Wound he the said
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George Clarke
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from the said Twenty third
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day of February in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the
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same Month and Year, at the said
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Parish of St. George Hanover Square
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within
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the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live
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on which said Twenty ninth day of the same Month and Year, at the
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Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid do say, that
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the said
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George Clarke
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in
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manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his death, and not otherwise.
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Mason Cornish
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
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Day Year and Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Mason Cornish Foreman
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