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<p n="1316"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1316">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1317">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at The Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1318">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_geo1319">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1320">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the second day of August 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_n1316-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ499">Gentleman</rs>
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, 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_n1316-2">James Grant</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-3">John Walker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-4">Thomas Mose</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-5">Alexande Henderson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-6">John Worrall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-7">Michael Dussen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-8">John Matthewman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-9">Robert<lb></lb>
Haynes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-10">William Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-23">William Earn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-22">Thomas Grubbham</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-21">George Linnell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-11">Richard Barton</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_n1316-12">James Grant</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_n1316-13">James Grant</rs>
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on the thirtieth day of<lb></lb>
June in the Year aforesaid, went to see a certain Porcupine Bear and other<lb></lb>
Beasts shewn by a Man whose name is unknown, in a certain Room situate<lb></lb>
in Nags Head Yard in the Parish of Saint James within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, and the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-14">James Grant</rs>
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being in Liquor, went near unto the place<lb></lb>
where the said Porcupine Boar was chained, whereupon the said Porcupine Board<lb></lb>
did then and there bite the left leg of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-15">James Grant</rs>
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, by means<lb></lb>
whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-16">James Grant</rs>
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then and there Received a very large and Mortal<lb></lb>
Wound in and upon the said left leg, of which said Mortal Wound he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-17">James Grant</rs>
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from the said thirteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid,<lb></lb>
until the first day of August in the same Year, at the said Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1321">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish<lb></lb>
and languishing did live, on which said first day of August in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, at the said Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65228_geo1322">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-18">James Grant</rs>
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid<lb></lb>
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-19">James Grant</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid, came to his Death and<lb></lb>
not otherwise. And that the said Porcupine Boar by the bite aforesaid caused<lb></lb>
the Death of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1316-20">James Grant</rs>
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, and is the Property and in the Possession<lb></lb>
of a Person or Person to the Jurors aforesaid unknown.</p>
<p n="1317">In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ500">Coroner</rs>
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, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1317-1">John<lb></lb>
Walker</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
Fellows, in their Presence have to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1318"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1318-1">Tho. Prichard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65228_occ501">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1319"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65228_n1319-1">Jno. Walker</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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