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<p n="722"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo734">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo735">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="723">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo736">Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo737">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo738">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty sixth day of April in the twenty eighth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-2">Joseph Harris</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-3">Thomas Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-4">Peter Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-5">Samuel Leak</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-6">William Ridett</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-7">John Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-8">Thomas Ballard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-9">William Walker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-10">John Parlby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-11">William<lb></lb>
Wrather</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-12">William Rawlings</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-13">Robert Robard</rs>
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, and Thomas Shanthster<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and were 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="WACWIC65228_n723-14">Joseph Harris</rs>
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came to <lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-15">Joseph Harris</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty fifth<lb></lb>
day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid (to wit)<lb></lb>
into a certain water called the Bason in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo739">Hyde Park</rs>
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there did last and throw himself<lb></lb>
by Means of which said Casting and Throwing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-16">Joseph Harris</rs>
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in the Waters of the<lb></lb>
said Bason was then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-17">Joseph Harris</rs>
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then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid so say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n723-18">Joseph Harris</rs>
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in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic<lb></lb>
and Distracted did Drown himself. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the<lb></lb>
Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="724"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n724-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ280">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="725"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n725-1">Thomas Tushes</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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