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<p n="286"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo256">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo257">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 Mrs. Neve Sign of the Dog in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo258">St. James's Market</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo260">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo261">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fifth 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_n286-1">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65234_occ115">Esq</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="WACWIC65234_n286-2">Alice Willis</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under 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 Alice Willis came to<lb></lb>
her Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Alice Willis on the Evening of Monday<lb></lb>
the third day of February in the year aforesaid at the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Martin in the Fields in the Liberty aforesaid in endeavouring to gain<lb></lb>
Admission into the Pitt of the Little Theatre in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo262">Hay market</rs>
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It so<lb></lb>
happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune and by the<lb></lb>
pressure of the Crowd of persons also endeavouring to gain Admission into<lb></lb>
the said Pitt, She the said Alice Willis was then and there Suffocated<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65234_geo263">the passage</rs>
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leading to the said Pitt Of which said Suffocation<lb></lb>
she the said Alice Willis then and there instantly died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
Alice Willis in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by misfortune came to his Death & not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the day Year<lb></lb>
and place first above written.</p>
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