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<p n="320"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo272">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo273">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo274">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo275">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo276">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date64">Third day of March</rs>
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in the Twelfth 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="WACWIC65212_n320-1">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="WACWIC65212_n320-2">George Clarke</rs>
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a Laborer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-3">Mason<lb></lb>
Cornish</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-4">Charles Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-5">James Barr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-6">William Horsey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-7">John Gee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-8">John Read</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-9">David Lecount</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-10">John Coates</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-11">Thomas Carter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-12">Edward Martin</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-13">Richard Burton</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-59">James Urquhart</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-14">George Clarke</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-15">George Clarke</rs>
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on the Twenty-<lb></lb>
third day of February in the Year aforesaid being upon a certain Ladder<lb></lb>
and Lighting a Lamp in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo277">Somerset Street</rs>
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in the County aforesaid, It so<lb></lb>
happened that the Ladder, on which the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-16">George Clarke</rs>
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was standing,<lb></lb>
turned round, and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-17">George Clarke</rs>
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then and there Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune, off and from the said Ladder, fell down and<lb></lb>
strick upon certain Iron Rails, whereby the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-18">George Clarke</rs>
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did then<lb></lb>
and there receive one Mortal Wound in and upon his left Leg, of which<lb></lb>
said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-19">George Clarke</rs>
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from the said Twenty third<lb></lb>
day of February in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the<lb></lb>
same Month and Year, at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo278">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live<lb></lb>
on which said Twenty ninth day of the same Month and Year, at the<lb></lb>
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-20">George Clarke</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the mortal Wound aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-21">George Clarke</rs>
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in<lb></lb>
manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his death, and not otherwise.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n320-22">Mason Cornish</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="321"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n321-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ85">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mason Cornish Foreman</p>
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