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<p n="1177"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1150">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1151">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 Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1152">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="WACWIC65228_geo1153">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1154">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Third day of July 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_n1177-1">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_n1177-2">John Hawkins</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-3">Robert Willerton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-4">John Rooke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-5">John Walker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-6">Thomas Dangerfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-7">Joseph Farmer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-8">James Free</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-20">David Dundass Macdunal</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-9">Edward<lb></lb>
Cooper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-10">Benjamin Leaver</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-11">Thomas Hutchinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-12">James Kiley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-13">Lewis<lb></lb>
Richards</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-14">Edward Warren</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="WACWIC65228_n1177-15">John Hawkins</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_n1177-16">John Hawkins</rs>
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on the thirteenth<lb></lb>
day of June in the Year aforesaid going into the Serpentine River<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1155">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1156">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1157">Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid there to Bathe himself and<lb></lb>
being a Person subject to fits It so happened that Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-17">John Hawkins</rs>
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was in the Water of the<lb></lb>
said River then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said<lb></lb>
suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-18">John Hawkins</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1177-19">John Hawkins</rs>
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in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came<lb></lb>
to his Death and not otherwise</p>
<p n="1178">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1178-1">Robert Willerton</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellow in their<lb></lb>
Presence have to this Inquisition at their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1179"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1179-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ457">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1180"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1180-1">Robt Willerton</rs>
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Foreman<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<del>Foreman</del>
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