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<p n="279"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo247">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo248">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n279-1">Thomas Huggins</rs>
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Sign of the Barn in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo249">St. Martins Lane</rs>
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parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo250">St. Martins</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo251">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo252">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourth day of February 1794 in the thirty fourth <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="WACWIC65234_n279-2">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of Miss <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n279-4">Charlotte Bushnell</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written<lb></lb>
and Seals affixed<lb></lb>
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 Charlotte Bushnell came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Charlotte Bushnell on the Evening<lb></lb>
of Monday the third day of February in the year aforesaid at the parish<lb></lb>
and in the Liberty aforesaid in endeavouring to gain Admission into<lb></lb>
the pitt of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo253">Little Theatre</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo254">the Haymarket</rs>
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It so happened that<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by misfortune and by the Pressure of the Crowd<lb></lb>
of persons also endeavouring to gain Admission into the said pitt She the<lb></lb>
said Charlotte Bushnell was Suffocated thrown down and trampled<lb></lb>
upon in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo255">the passage</rs>
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there lending to the said pitt: Of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Trampling She the said Charlotte Bushnell<lb></lb>
then and there instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n279-3">Charlotte Bucknell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise In<lb></lb>
Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their hands & Seals the day Year & place<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65234_occ113">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n281-2">James Love</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n281-3">Jno Dutton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n281-4">Joseph Whitaker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n281-5">Wm. France</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n282-2">Jno Robinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n282-3">Richd. Screaton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n282-4">Jn Peter Thompson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65234_n282-5">Chris Fisher</rs>
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P LeJeune</p>
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