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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
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on the thirty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
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the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to
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inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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came to his death say upon their Oath that the said
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on the twenty first day of
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December in the year aforesaid at the parish and borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid
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being in a certain boat then lying and being on the River Thomas It so happened that
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the said Robert Perry accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the
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then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said
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did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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do say that the said
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
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and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned. In Witness whereof as well the said
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as the said
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself of himself and the rest
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of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the
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day year and place first above written.
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