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<p n="512"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo418">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo419">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo420">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo421">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date88">Twenty 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_n512-1">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_n512-2">John Payton</rs>
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an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-3">John Dover</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-4">Leonard Clow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-5">John Keith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-6">John Clarke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-7">John Lawrence</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-8">John Gale</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-9">John Goldsmith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-10">William Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-11">Thomas Shields</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-12">Timothy Gibbard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-36">Edward<lb></lb>
Sheaf</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-13">Clayton Wilkinson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-14">John Evans</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_n512-15">John Payton</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_n512-16">John Payton</rs>
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the Infant, of the Age<lb></lb>
of three Years, on the Twenty sixth day of February in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being alone in the Room or Apartment of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-17">Richard Payton</rs>
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situate in<lb></lb>
Abingdon Buildings in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo422">St. John and Evangelist</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there standing near the<lb></lb>
Fire side, It so happened that the Linnen gown which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-18">John Payton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
had on his Body, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune took fire, by<lb></lb>
Reason whereof, and from the Smoke and Flames arising from the said<lb></lb>
Fire, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-19">John Payton</rs>
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was then and there much Burnt in the Thighs<lb></lb>
Back Sides, and Private Parts, of which said Burning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-20">John<lb></lb>
Payton</rs>
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at the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo423">St. Margaret </rs>
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within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid until the Twenty second day of March in the same Year<lb></lb>
languishing did live, and thereof then and there died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n512-21">John<lb></lb>
Payton</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune 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_n512-22">John<lb></lb>
Dover</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="513"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n513-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ147">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n513-2">John Dover</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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