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(To wit.)}
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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of
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Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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a Negro Boy called
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas Eames
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John Abrans
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John Marshall
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Graham Williams
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William Lincoln
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Robert Watts
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Joseph Meeres
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Cornelius Herrington
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William Fletcher
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said Negro Boy called Limerick came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Negro Boy called
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on the
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seventh Day of August in the year aforesaid being on Board a certain Ship called
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The Noble Bounty then lying in The
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River Thames
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at King Edward Stairs in the
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Parish and County aforesaid and being endeavouring to bear off the said Ship from
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a certain other Ship called The Symetry which was then and there foul of the said first
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mentioned Ship It so happened That he the said Negro Boy called Limerick
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then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into The River aforesaid
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and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which said
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Suffocation and Drowning he the said Negro Boy called Lemerick and there died
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and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Negro
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Boy called Limcrick in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
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and by Misfortune came to his Death
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year first
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above written.
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Thos: Eames
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