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France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before
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being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how
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and in what manner the said Joseph came to his death say upon their oath that the said Joseph
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it so happened that the said Joseph accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River
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of Thames and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and
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drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said Joseph did then and there die
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by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not
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otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James Hasted the foreman
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of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this
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