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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo429">London</rs>
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(that<lb></lb>
is to say) at the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date41">twenty fifth day of April in the thirty seventh year of the reign of<lb></lb>
our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain</rs>
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and so forth before Thomas<lb></lb>
Shelton Gentleman <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ217">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo430">City of London</rs>
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and Borough<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo431">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-3">George Smith</rs>
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now here lying dead by the<lb></lb>
oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-4">John Gray</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-5">Richard Pooler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-6">Thomas Riddall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-7">Daniel Fidgeon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-8">Edward Roberts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-9">Thomas Walker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-10">Richard Burchmore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-11">Christopher Lattimer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-12">James Lamb</rs>
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Daniel<lb></lb>
Jereson <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-13">Joseph Fennel</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-14">William How</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-15">Richard Leveridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ218">good</rs>
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and lawful<lb></lb>
men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo432">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and<lb></lb>
charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-16">George Smith</rs>
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came to his death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-17">George Smith</rs>
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on the twenty second day of April in the year aforesaid being in and on board<lb></lb>
of a certain vessel on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo433">River of Thames</rs>
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there situate It so happened that the said George<lb></lb>
Smith accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said vessel into<lb></lb>
the said River and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there<lb></lb>
suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said George<lb></lb>
Smith did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-18">George Smith</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n453-19">John Gray</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ219">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first<lb></lb>
abovewritten.<lb></lb>
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<p n="454"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n454-1">Jno. Gray</rs>
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