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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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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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came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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on the Twenty Ninth
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Day of May in the year aforesaid being assisting to unload a certain Lighter laden with
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Coals which was then lying on The River Lee at The Still House of Messrs.
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fevre & Co
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in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
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then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in
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the waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and
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Drowning he the said
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then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid accidentally casually 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 and Year first
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