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<p n="204"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo210">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo211">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="205">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo212">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo213">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo214">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixteenth day of February in the Sixteenth 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="WACWIC65216_n205-1">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="WACWIC65216_n205-2">Ann Waite</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-3">James<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-26">Henry List</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-4">James Green</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-5">Richard Tomkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-6">William Cook</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-7">William Coward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-8">John Silvester</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-9">George Bride</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-10">Edward Halley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-11">Thomas<lb></lb>
Brasier</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-12">Robert Bowen</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-13">Thomas Barr</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="WACWIC65216_n205-14">Ann Waite</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-15">Ann Waite</rs>
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Apprentice to Mrs.<lb></lb>
Haddock Masitua maker (the wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-16">Thomas Haddock</rs>
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) at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo215">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the County aforesaid, on the Twenty second day of January in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid being walking in the Gutter at the Top on the outside of the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-17">Thomas Haddock</rs>
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and the Adjoining Houses<lb></lb>
Situate at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo216">Knightsbridge</rs>
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aforesaid, and that a Great Quantity of snow<lb></lb>
was then lying upon the said Houses, It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-18">Ann<lb></lb>
Waite</rs>
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then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell off<lb></lb>
and from the top of the dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-19">John Silvester</rs>
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(being the second<lb></lb>
House from the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-20">Thomas Haddocks</rs>
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) unto the Ground, whereby the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-21">Ann Waite</rs>
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did then and the receive divers Fractures in and upon<lb></lb>
her left Thigh and left Arm, of which said Fractures she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-22">Ann Waite</rs>
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<lb></lb>
from the said Twenty second day of January in the Year aforesaid untill<lb></lb>
the fourteenth day of February in the Same Year at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo217">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo218">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid did Languish and<lb></lb>
Languishing did live, on which said Fourteenth day of February aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo219">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo220">Hanover Square</rs>
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aforesaid, she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-23">Ann Waite</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
mortal Fractures aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-24">Ann Waite</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
Accidentally Causally and by Misfortune came to her death, and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the Said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n205-25">James Jones</rs>
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Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day year<lb></lb>
and Place first above written</p>
<p n="206"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n206-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ64">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="207">Jas. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n207-1">Jones Foreman</rs>
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