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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
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aforesaid on the
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in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our
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Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before
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of our said Lord the King for the
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on view of the body of a man whose name to the Jurors
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is unknown now here lying dead by the oath of
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Thomas Woollard
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John How
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Taylor,
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and
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Timothy Higgins
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, good and lawful men of the
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aforesaid who
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being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
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how and in what manner the said man whose name is unknown came to his death
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say upon their oath that the said man whose name is unknown then lately before
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accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the
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there situate and in and with
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the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said
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suffocation and drowning the said Man whose name is unknown did then and thew die
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Thomas Woollard
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the foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have
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to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place above written.
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Thos Woollard
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