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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1358">Saint John Wapping</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date186">thirteenth Day of August in the twenty second Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-5">William Elliott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-6">Thomas Coe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-7">Cuthbert Hays</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-8">James French</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-9">Richard Dabney</rs>
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, William<lb></lb>
Taylor, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-10">Griffin Boardman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-11">Joseph Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-12">John Meers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-13">Joseph Meers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-14">James Randall</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-15">Jonathan Chawlker</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-16">John Meek</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-17">John Meek</rs>
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on the Sixth Day of<lb></lb>
August in the year aforesaid being a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ272">Mariner</rs>
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on Board a Ship called The Jenny<lb></lb>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1361">near The Tower</rs>
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of London And being endeavouring<lb></lb>
to put an Hammock upon the Main Stay of the said Ship It so happened<lb></lb>
That he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1359-18">John Meek</rs>
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then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
fell from the said Ship into The River aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof<lb></lb>
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and Drowned of which<obscured></obscured>
the<lb></lb>
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<p n="1360"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1360-1">William Elliott</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Reft of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year frist<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1361"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1361-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<p n="1362">Wm Elliott<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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